ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,991, issued on June 2, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"PDCCH monitoring reduction associated with WTRU power saving" was invented by Erdem Bala (East Meadow, N.Y.), Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.) and Dylan Watts (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The WTRU may monitor for a downlink transmission in a first monitoring occasion of a first search space. The first monitoring occasion of the first search space may be associated with a first monitoring occasion pattern. The WTRU may monitor for the downlink transmission ...