ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,153, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Non-consecutive slot monitoring configuration for early access" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Zhifei Fan (San Diego), Qingjiang Tian (San Diego) and Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a network node, a message indicating a set of multi-slot monitoring configurations supported by a base station based on a minimum monitoring occasion periodicity asso...