ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,117, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"PDCCH monitoring for single-DCI to multi-cell scheduling" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to joint-carrier scheduling using a single downlink control information (DCI) signal. The user equipment (UE) receives from a base station (BS) of a first serving cell, a downlink control information (DCI) that indicates a jo...