ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,601, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for base station configuration of PDCCH monitoring in a wireless device" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (Beijing, Canada), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Sigen Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for determining a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) search space monitoring configur...