ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,432, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).

"User equipment and communication method" was invented by Chi Gao (Beijing), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Li Wang (Beijing) and Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a wireless communication method and an eNode B and user equipment therefor. The method comprises a step of transmitting multiple PDCCH or EPDCCH repetitions respectively in multiple successive downlink subframes with a transmission repetition number and a transmission starting subframe. The transmission starting subframe is selected from ...