US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 3 for "Skipping downlink channel monitoring" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,038, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Skipping downlink channel monitoring" was invented by Diana Maamari (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

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 receive downlink control information (DCI) that includes a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring adaptation field indicating to skip PDCCH monitoring for a duration on an active downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of a serving cell. The UE may transmit a NACK, in acc...