ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,744, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for flexible configuration of paging occasions" was invented by Sigen Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (Cupertino, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed to configure different paging occasions for enhanced UEs that support, and for legac...