ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,538, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Group-based PDCCH overbooking and dropping" 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: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for group-based physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) overbooking and dropping. One aspect provides a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes: determining a total number of slots for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring for a slot group i...