ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,285, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Search space set switching" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Wenshu Zhang (San Diego), Wei Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for improving capability signaling and...