ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,622, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Wireless communication method, eNode B, and user equipment" was invented by Lilei Wang (Beijing), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Chi Gao (Beijing) and Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are wireless communication methods, an eNB and a UE. The wireless communication method performed by an eNB includes transmitting downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment (UE), wherein the DCI is designed based on a coverage enhancement level for the UE."

The patent was filed on M...