ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,328, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"UE-assisted dummy DCI usage reduction in PDCCH skip" was invented by Amrit Kharel (San Diego), Marcelo Schiocchet (San Diego) and Kausik Ray Chaudhuri (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for wireless communication are provided. An example method may include receiving, from a network node, DCI including a command to skip monitoring for PDCCH for a period of time. The example method may further include transmitting, to the network node during the period of time, at least one SR to schedule at least one PUSCH trans...