US Patent Issued to Apple on April 1 for "Methods and apparatus for DL control channel monitoring and candidates dropping in wireless communication" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,853, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for DL control channel monitoring and candidates dropping in wireless communication" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. To monitor a PDCCH for CA, a UE may receive PDCCH candidates in a plurality of co...