ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,647, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Methods for interpreting downlink control information and user equipment using the same" was invented by Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Hung Wei (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hai-Han Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for interpreting downlink control information (DCI) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message; receiving DCI; determining a configuration status of a first information element (IE) in the RRC message; and interpreting the DCI by considering a field size of a ...