ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,999, issued on June 3, was assigned to ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption for carrier aggregation in a wireless communication system" was invented by Chun-Wei Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example, a User Equipment (UE) is configured with one or more cells including a second cell. The UE is configured to monitor one or more first UE-specific Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCHs) on the second cell. The one or more first UE-specific PDCCHs schedule data transmission on a first cell. The UE receives a Downli...