ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,447, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatuses for handling configured and dynamic downlink transmissions in a wireless communication network" was invented by Ajit Nimbalker (Dublin, Calif.) and Ravikiran Nory (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein efficiently address prioritization by a UE regarding its reception behavior with respect to a configured downlink transmission that is overlapped by a dynamic assignment and/or the dynamic downlink transmission scheduled via the dynamic assignment. In at least one embodiment having a...