ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,371, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Search space monitoring" was invented by Robert Baldemair (Solna, Sweden), Sorour Falahati (Stockholm), Daniel Chen Larsson (Stockholm) and Stefan Parkvall (Bromma, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided mechanisms for monitoring search spaces. A first method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a downlink slot. At least part of the OFDM symbol is included in a device-specific search space and in a common search space. The first method comprises monit...