ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,423, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Monitoring for downlink repetitions" was invented by Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Jing Lei (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may identify a slot format configuration, such as a time division duplex (TDD) slot format configuration, and one or more downlink repetition configurations corresponding to a number of downlink repetitions for a user equipment (UE). The base station may transmit the configurations to the UE. ...