ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,427, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipments, base stations and methods for multi-panel/TRP PDCCH transmission and reception" was invented by Kazunari Yokomakura (Sakai, Japan), Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.) and Kai Ying (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is described. Receiving circuitry receives first information and second information. Monitoring circuitry monitors downlink control information (DCI) carried by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The first information indicates information to configure a first control resource set (CORESET) pool and...