ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,501, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Control channel monitoring in a wireless network" was invented by Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh Dashtaki (Burnaby, Canada), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more wireless devices may communicate with a base station in a wireless network, such as a terrestrial network or a non-terrestrial network. The one or more wireless devices may resume control channel monitoring after a timing gap from an uplink signal transmission. One or more configuration parameters, such as radio ...