ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,811, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Monitoring other search spaces near a common search space" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Jae Ho Ryu (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 a first zone that includes one or more symbols at or before a scheduled common search space (CSS) and/or a second zone that includes one or more symbols at or after the scheduled CSS. The UE may monitor, or...