ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,131, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Physical downlink control channel and physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel enhancements" was invented by Runhua Chen (Plano, Texas), Eko N. Onggosanusi (Allen, Texas), Vikram Chandrasekhar (Dallas) and Anthony Edet Ekpenyong (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmission system included at least one user equipment and a base station. The base station is operable to form a downlink control information block, modulate the downlink control information, precode the modulated downlink control information, and transmit the prec...