US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Beijing) on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring downlink control information" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,048, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring downlink control information" was invented by Yu Zhang (Beijing) and Haipeng Lei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for monitoring DCI. The method includes: receiving a DCI from a BS, wherein the DCI includes an indicator; determining one or more sensing beams used by the BS to perform a LBT procedure according to the indicator and a higher layer signaling; and determining one or more transmission beams used by the BS to transmit PDCCH according to the indicato...