ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,712, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for scheduling control channel information" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kao-Peng Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To obtain control channel information from a base station that communicates with the user device via a shared carrier, a user device monitors (1502) a control channel on the shared carrier according to a pre-transmission pattern of control channel occasions. While monitoring the control channel using the pre-transmission pattern, the user device receives (1504) from the base station...