ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,376, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Control channel transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Juan Zheng (Beijing) and Chaojun Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to communication methods and apparatus. In one example method, a first control resource set is determined, where a quantity of symbols comprised in the first control resource set in time domain is a positive integer less than or equal to M, and M is an integer greater than 3. Control information is received on one or more resource elements in the first control resource set....