ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,261, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Control channel monitoring and information element transmission methods and apparatuses, device and storage medium" was invented by Shujuan Zhang (Guangdong, China), Zhaohua Lu (Guangdong, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Guangdong, China), YuNgok Li (Guangdong, China), Bo Gao (Guangdong, China), Hao Wu (Guangdong, China) and Zhen He (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a control channel monitoring method and apparatus, an information element transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium Whether H first-type control channel eleme...