ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,971, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple-slot physical downlink control channel monitoring" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that a UE-specific search space (USS) monitoring occasion and a common search space (CSS) monitoring occasion are to occur in a slot group. The UE may perform one or more search space monitoring actions base...