ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,331, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Search space monitoring method and apparatus" was invented by Yifan Xue (Beijing), Haibo Xu (Beijing), Yiru Kuang (Beijing) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search space monitoring method allows a terminal to monitor a power saving signal in a search space in a scenario in which the power saving signal can be applied to a long discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle and a short DRX cycle. The method includes, when using the long DRX cycle, monitoring, by the terminal, the power saving signal in a first search space, and skipping...