ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,731, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for parameter estimation" was invented by Yu Pan (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems and methods for parameter estimation. A wireless communication device may determine that a first number of PDCCH transmissions, scheduled from a wireless communication node, that are associated and are PDCCH candidates for blind detection decoding, is K, wherein K is an integer larger than 1. The wireless communication device may...