ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,037, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Conditional skipping monitoring of downlink control channel" was invented by Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Oulu, Finland), Chunli Wu (Beijing), Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland) and Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to for conditionally skipping monitoring of downlink control channel in random access. A first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus, a command indicating the first apparatus to skip monitoring a downlink control channel between the second apparatus and the f...