US Patent Issued to Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) on Sept. 30 for "Communication method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,691, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Huayu Zhou (Shanghai) and Zhengang Pan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and apparatus applied to a user equipment, where the method includes: monitoring a paging indication physical downlink control channel PDCCH; acquiring paging indication information if the paging indication PDCCH is detected; and determining, according to the paging indication information, whether to monitor a paging PDCCH."

The patent ...