ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,004, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods of group common transmission" was invented by Xing Liu (Shenzhen, China), Peng Hao (Shenzhen, China), Xingguang Wei (Shenzhen, China) and Shuaihua Kou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for wireless communication systems are disclosed. In one aspect, the wireless communication method includes sending, by a network to a wireless communication device, first signaling for monitoring at least one downlink control channel, the at least one downlink control channel comprises a first downlink control channel and a secon...