US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 29 for "Methods for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate determination" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,741, issued on April 29, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate determination" was invented by J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Aata El Hamss (Laval, Canada) and Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) determines PDCCH candidates. For a slot, the WTRU determines a number of valid PDCCH candidates associated with at least one search space based on a number of designated search spaces associated with the WTRU in the slot, a type of the search space, a p...