ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,869, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for paging early indication and paging subgrouping" was invented by Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for paging early indication (PEI) and paging subgrouping are described herein. One described user equipment (UE) in...