ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,991, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Channel monitoring indication method, terminal, and network device" was invented by Dajie Jiang (Guangdong, China), Zichao Ji (Guangdong, China) and Xueming Pan (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel monitoring indication method, a terminal, and a network device are provided. The method includes: monitoring a first physical downlink control channel PDCCH; and if downlink control information (DCI) not used for scheduling is received on the first PDCCH, determining, based on the DCI not used for scheduling, whether to moni...