ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,677, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for paging control" was invented by Lianhai Wu (Chaoyang, China), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany), Jie Shi (Haidian District, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving, at a user equipment, information indicating whether busy indication functionality is supported or not, wherein the busy indication functionality is associated...