ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,363, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"PDCCH monitoring and apparatus, and storage medium and terminal" was invented by Huayu Zhou (Shanghai) and Zhengang Pan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PDCCH monitoring method and apparatus, and a storage medium and a terminal are provided. The method comprises: monitoring a PDCCH in a first type of Control Resource Set (CORESET), or a PDCCH in resources where Control Channel Element (CCE) indexes are concatenated in a plurality of CORESETs."

The patent was filed on Sept. 17, 2020, under Application No. 17/775,035.

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