ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,585, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cross-slot scheduling for cross numerology" was invented by Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego) and Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a scheduling offset threshold corresponding to a cross-slot grant. The UE may monitor a control channel in a first slot for the cross-slot grant, the control channel having a first numerology that is different than...