US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 19 for "Discontinuous reception inactivity timer for PDCCH repetition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,006, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discontinuous reception inactivity timer for PDCCH repetition" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Yitao Chen (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration to allow a UE to determine if a detected PDCCH corresponds to a linked PDCCH candidate with repetition. The apparatus monitors for a PDCCH based on a DRX configuration, the DRX configuration having an inactivity timer. The apparatus determines whether the PDCCH corresponds to a linked PDCCH candidate and a new transmission is scheduled, wherein the linked PDC...