ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,367, issued on March 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Downlink multiplexing" was invented by Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia (Tokyo) and Yassin Aden Awad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile station which communicates with a base station includes a transceiver configured to receive a downlink control channel, and a controller configured to determine whether C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The controller is further configured to determine that resource allocation in the downlink control channel overrides persistent downlink resource allocation for a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) if the C-RNTI is includ...