ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,271, issued on April 14, was assigned to SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method for physical layer monitoring and related apparatuses" was invented by Huayu Zhou (Shanghai), Sicong Zhao (Shanghai), Zhenzhu Lei (Shanghai) and Zhengang Pan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for physical layer monitoring and related apparatuses are provided in implementations of the disclosure, where the method and the related apparatuses are applied to a user equipment (UE). The method includes: determining a monitor mode for a type-1 physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to a type-1 wakeup indic...