ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,851, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhancements to PDCCH skipping with dummy grants" was invented by Diana Maamari (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France) and Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) and related apparatus are provided. In the method, the UE receives downlink control information (DCI) indicating for the UE to skip physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring...