US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Beijing) on April 21 for "Narrowband internet-of-things (NBIoT) physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring optimization in non-terrestrial networks (NTN)" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,759, issued on April 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Narrowband internet-of-things (NBIoT) physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring optimization in non-terrestrial networks (NTN)" was invented by Zhi Yan (Xicheng District, China), Hongmei Liu (Changping District, China), Yuantao Zhang (Dongcheng District, China), Yingying Li (Haidian District, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for monitoring NPDCCH in NBIoT are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a first control signal scheduling a data transmission; and monitoring a second co...