ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,744, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink control information for licensed and unlicensed new radio" was invented by Iyab Issam Sakhnini (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink control information (DCI) for New Radio (NR) licensed operation and receive a second DCI for NR unlicensed operation, where the second DCI received for NR unlicensed operation is a same length as the ...