ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,047, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Grid-aligned physical downlink control channel skipping for periodic traffic" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri (San Diego), Yuchul Kim (San Diego), Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

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 receive a configuration indicating a grid of traffic arrival times that includes a plura...