ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,428, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Downlink control channel design and signaling for beamformed systems" was invented by Yugeswar Deenoo (Chalfont, Pa.), Tao Deng (New York), Kyle Jung-Lin Pan (Saint James, N.Y.), Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Ravikumar V. Pragada (Warrington, Pa.), Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.) and Mihaela C. Beluri (Jericho, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transmit and/or receive beamforming may be applied to the control channel transmission/reception, e.g., in mmW access link system design. Techniques to identify candidate control channel...