ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,494, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MOBILEEQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Signal processing method and apparatus" was invented by Meiying Yang (Beijing), Jiaqing Wang (Beijing) and Fang-Chen Cheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing method and a signal processing apparatus are provided in the present application. A network device configures a paging early indication for a terminal device in an idle state, where the paging early indication is used for indicating monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of at least one paging occasion, and/or monitoring of at least one PDCCH with different pa...