ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,477, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Decoding of physical downlink control channels ending at same symbol or different symbols" was invented by Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Jing Lei (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Hwan Joon Kwon (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 base station may determine that a distance between an end of a first downlink control information (DCI) and a corresponding first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a distance between an end of a second DCI and a corres...