ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,121, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Rules for multi-slot physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring in common search space sets" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising receiving, from a network entity, signaling configuring: 1) a minimum physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring periodicity that spans a number of slots associated with a slot group, and 2) monitoring occas...