ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,419, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method" was invented by Liqing Liu (Sakai, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai, Japan) and Hiroki Takahashi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, information to configure a scheduling cell and scheduled cell(s) for cross-carrier scheduling and to configure carrier indicator field (CIF) value for respective cell, monitoring a first set of PDCCH candidates with a CCE aggregation level (AL) in a first set of CCEs...