ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,897, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Search space group switching method and apparatus" was invented by Dongru Li (Guangdong, China), Na Li (Guangdong, China), Xiaodong Shen (Guangdong, China) and Kai Wu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a search space group switching method and apparatus. The method can be applied to a terminal and includes switching between at least two search space groups, and performing corresponding physical downlink control channel PDCCH monitoring based on a switched-to search space group, where t...