ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,136, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink control channel repetition for a downlink control channel order" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that a first downlink control channel candidate and a second downlink control channel candidate are linked for downlink control channel repetition. The UE may receive a downlink control channel order requesting the UE to parti...