ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,554, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Downlink monitoring using search space sets" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communication techniques using search space sets are described. A downlink channel may be monitored using search space sets based on one or more conditions. For example, a downlink channel may be monitored on a first search space set du...