ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,912, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal for configuring monitoring of downlink control channel" was invented by Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a receiving unit configured to receive a signal in a physical layer from a base station, the signal including information related to monitoring of a control channel. The terminal includes a control unit configured to monitor the control channel transmitted from the base station. The control unit configures a period in which the control channel is not monitored, based on the information."

The patent was filed on April 2...