ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,113, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Apparatus and methods of span level TDM PDCCH transmission" was invented by Yi Zhang (Chao Yang District, China), Chenxi Zhu (Haidian District, China), Bingchao Liu (Changping District, China), Wei Ling (Changping, China) and Lingling Xiao (Haidian District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods of span level TDM PDCCH transmission are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a capability report from a device, wherein the capability report comprises Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) monitoring capability and/or be...