ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,806, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Determination of search space sets for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring" was invented by Qiongjie Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Aris Papasakellariou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment, a base station, and a method for determining search space sets for PDCCH monitoring. The UE includes a receiver and a processor and is configured to receive a configuration for search space sets. The configuration includes a first group of search space sets, a second group of search space sets, a first group index for th...