ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,131, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Monitoring control channels using higher layer configuration" was invented by Youjun Hu (Shenzhen, China), Bo Dai (Shenzhen, China), Huiying Fang (Shenzhen, China), Luanjian Bian (Shenzhen, China), Weiwei Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Kun Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for monitoring control channels. A wireless communication device may receive, from a wireless communication node, a higher layer configuration. The wireless communication device may determine, according to the h...