ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,884, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Paging method, base station and user equipment" was invented by Jing Liang (Beijing) and Haiyang Quan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paging method, a base station and a UE are provided. The paging method includes: receiving, by a UE in an inactive state, a paging message for determining a paging type, the paging message being transmitted from a base station, the paging type including an access network paging initiated by an access network or a core network paging initiated by a core network; determining, by the UE, the pag...