ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,069, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"PDCCH coverage enhancement" was invented by Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.), Erdem Bala (East Meadow, N.Y.) and Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) coverage enhancement for reduced capability wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs). Overbooking rules may be applied, for example, to limit the number of blind decodes, e.g., if/when PDCCH is repeated. A coverage enhance...