ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,226, issued on April 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment involved in monitoring a downlink control channel" was invented by Ming-Hung Tao (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Rikin Shah (Langen, Germany) and Madhav Gupta (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) comprises processing circuitry which operates a function that involves monitoring of a downlink control channel of an unlicensed radio cell for information intended to the UE. The unlicensed radio cell operates in an unlicensed spectrum and is control...