ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,722, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Search space set monitoring for physical downlink control channel repetition" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates in first and second search space (SS) sets may be located in a same slot. When both SS sets have the same periodicity and the same offset, the UE may determine that SS sets are linked. The UE may expect the...