US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Reduced control channel monitoring for random access procedures" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,466, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reduced control channel monitoring for random access procedures" was invented by Jing Dai (Beijing), Jing Lei (San Diego), Ruiming Zheng (Beijing), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Chao Wei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) implement a timer (e.g., a round-trip time (RTT) timer) during which it does not monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The UE may initiate the timer after transmitting a first random access message or a four-step random ac...