ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,180, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-slot PDCCH monitoring and search space set group switching" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Sigen Ye (San Diego) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) configured to receive configuration information for a first search space (SS) set of a first slot group for multi-slot physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring (MSM), receive configuration information for a second SS set of a second slot group for MSM, perform MSM based on the ...