ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,707, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Physical downlink control channel limit handling for enhanced cross-carrier scheduling" was invented by Ravikiran Nory (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajit Nimbalker (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device in a communications network can monitor physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, candidates on a primary cell, PCell, for PCell assignments. The communication device can further determine a maximum number of monitoring elements based on at least one of a higher layer configuration related to secondary cell, SCell, to P...