US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 4 for "Multi-cell scheduling with reduced control overhead" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,250, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multi-cell scheduling with reduced control overhead" was invented by Aris Papasakellariou (Houston) and Qiongjie Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for multi-cell scheduling with reduced control overhead. A method for receiving physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) includes receiving information for a first group of N1 cells and for a second group of N2 cells, determining a total number of PDCCH receptions in a slot on a scheduling cell based on N1 and on a ratio of N2 over M, and receiving a...