ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,839, issued on May 5, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"System and method for physical downlink control channel monitoring based on user equipment capability" was invented by Hamid Saber (San Diego) and Jung Hyun Bae (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are provided for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). A user equipment (UE) reports capability information indicating one or more tuples. Each tuple indicates a combination of serving cells configured for per-slot and per-span monitoring that the UE is capable of supporting. An indication is received in response t...