ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,137, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for enhanced PDCCH monitoring" was invented by Debdeep Chatterjee (Cupertino, Calif.), Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr (Cupertino, Calif.), Toufiqul Islam (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sergey Panteleev (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for physical downlink control channel (PD-CCH) monitoring by user equipment (UE includes receiving a specification indicative of a monitoring pattern for a search space set including a plurality of slots. The monitoring pattern includes one or more monitoring spans within the search space set. Each of the one or m...