ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,829, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Delaying downlink channel monitoring in a non-terrestrial network" was invented by Bharat Shrestha (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego) and Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego).

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 transmit, to a distributed unit (DU) of a network node associated with a non-terrestrial network (NTN), an uplink transmission, wherein the DU is onboard a satellite and a central unit (CU) of the network node i...