ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,117, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-slot PDCCH monitoring in search space sets for higher carrier frequency operation" was invented by Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.), Daewon Lee (Portland, Ore.), Yingyang Li (Beijing) and Gang Xiong (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) configured for operation in a fifth-generation new radio (NR) system may decode higher-layer signalling comprising configuration information received from a gNodeB (gNB) that configures the UE with search space (SS) sets for multi-slot physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitor...