ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,157, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Reducing power consumption for PDCCH monitoring" was invented by Sina Maleki (Malmo, Sweden), Ilmiawan Shubhi (Malmo, Sweden), Andres Reial (Hollviken, Sweden) and Ali Nader (Malmo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for skipping or suspending PDCCH monitoring to reduce power consumption in a wireless device and extend battery lifetime. To implement PDCCH skipping, the access node sends a command to the wireless device to suspend PDCCH monitoring for a specified time period following a delay period. The request to s...