ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,851, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).

"Communication apparatus" was invented by Seigo Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan) and Daichi Imamura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station communicates with a terminal, for which an uplink component carrier and downlink component carriers are configured. The base station adjusts a payload size of control information, transmitted in a downlink control channel, based on a basic payload size, and maps the control information onto a search space in at least one of the downlink component carriers. The basic payload size of the...