ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,440, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Control channel monitoring rules for inter-cell beam management" was invented by Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland), Sami-Jukka Hakola (Kempele, Finland), Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu (Espoo, Finland), Mihai Enescu (Espoo, Finland) and Juha Pekka Karjalainen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for control channel monitoring. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at user equipment, an indication of a codepoint activation, wherein the ...