ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,173, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for transmitting physical channels, user equipment therefor, method and user equipment for relay transmission" was invented by Di Su (Beijing), Feifei Sun (Beijing), Miao Zhou (Beijing) and Chen Qian (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a physical channel transmission method, which includes: determining transmission subcarrier resources according to a configuration of a base station; and sending or receiving physical channels on the transmission subcarrier resources. Compared with the prior art, the p...