ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,997, issued on June 2, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment and base station involved in monitoring of a control channel" was invented by Quan Kuang (Langen, Germany), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User equipment includes a processor, a transmitter, and receiver. The processor determines a capability of the UE for operating a monitoring function involving a capability condition regarding a minimum group time gap between two consecutive groups of time spans within a grouping window having a lengt...