US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Methods and apparatus for signaling and state transition for PDCCH skipping and SSSG switching" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,114, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for signaling and state transition for PDCCH skipping and SSSG switching" was invented by Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring adaptation. A user equipment (UE) may monitor a default search space set group (SSSG...