ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,191, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Downlink control monitoring operations in wireless communication" was invented by Hong He (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), 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), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Yuchul Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for downlink control in...