ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,456, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system" was invented by Seunggye Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngdae Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User equipment according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may detect first DCI for a paging early indicator (PEI), monitor second DCI for paging on a paging occasion (PO) of a first slot related to the PEI, on the basis of detecting the first DCI, and receive a paging message through a PD...