ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,249, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Control channel monitoring procedure" was invented by Qiujin Guo (Guangdong, China), Mengzhu Chen (Guangdong, China), Jun Xu (Guangdong, China), Xiaoying Ma (Guangdong, China), Qiang Fu (Guangdong, China) and Jian Kang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to methods, systems, and devices related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to a control channel monitoring procedure. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication is disclosed. The method includes detecting...