ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,009, issued on May 6, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and devices for scheduling multiple cells with single downlink control information" was invented by Jing Shi (Shenzhen, China), Peng Hao (Shenzhen, China) and Xingguang Wei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes methods, systems and devices for scheduling at least one cell with downlink control information (DCI) for a user equipment (UE). One method includes receiving, by the UE, the DCI via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a network base station, the DCI used to schedule at least one physical downlink...