US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "UE paging in NR unlicensed spectrum" (American, British, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,009, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"UE paging in NR unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Anthony Lee (San Diego), Seau S. Lim (Swindon, Great Britain), Yongjun Kwak (Portland, Ore.), Dae Won Lee (Portland, Ore.), Youn Hyoung Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Lopamudra Kundu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of increasing paging opportunities when the unlicensed band is used are described. The gNB sends an RRC message that indicates multiple monitoring occasions in a paging occasion of a paging frame. The UE monitors a monitoring occasion of a PO to determine whethe...