ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,139, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Channel monitoring method and apparatus, channel transmission method and apparatus, terminal, and network side device" was invented by Kai Wu (Guangdong, China), Dongru Li (Guangdong, China) and Kun Yang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel monitoring method and apparatus, a channel transmission method and apparatus, a terminal, and a network side device. The channel monitoring method of this application includes: monitoring a PDCCH in at least two physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions, where,...