ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,233, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for enhancements on paging early indication (PEI) design" was invented by Wei-De Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Ju Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Chia Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various solutions for enhancements on paging early indication-occasion (PEI-O) monitoring are described. An apparatus may receive a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter from a network node. The first RRC parameter indicates an offset before a first paging frame (PF). The apparatus may determine a time location of a PEI-O according to a reference point ...