ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,714, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scrambling for control messages" was invented by Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for an eNodeB operable to apply scrambling to coded bits transported via a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The eNodeB can generate a code word that comprises coded bits for transmission to the UE. The UE can be a bandwidth-reduced low complexity (BL) UE or a coverage enhancement (CE) UE. The eNodeB can identify, for the BL UE or the CE UE, a scrambling sequence to be applied to the code...