ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,877, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for span pattern repetitions over multiple slots" was invented by Qiongjie Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hongbo Si (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for a repeated pattern over multiple slots in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment includes receiving a configuration for search space sets, determining a combination (X, Y), and determining a bitmap for a search space set from the search space sets based on the configuration. Each bit in the bitmap is asso...