ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,139, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink control channel monitoring" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego) and Heechoon Lee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may monitor a configured set of control channel elements (CCEs) for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) decoding for a scheduled cell of a set of scheduled cells, wherein the configured set of CCEs is on a per scheduled cell basis or a per carrier indicator fi...