US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for downlink control information" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,314, issued on May 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for downlink control information" was invented by Zhipeng Lin (Nanjing, China) and Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for downlink control information. A method at a network device comprises determining a format of downlink control information (DCI) used for scheduling of downlink shared channel in a 2-step random access procedure. The method further comprises determining an identifier used for scrambling cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the format of DCI. The identifier ...