ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,622, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Non-access stratum congestion indications" was invented by Amer Catovic (San Diego), Osama Lotfallah (San Diego), Stefano Faccin (San Ysidro, Calif.) and Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network, a procedure rejection message for non-cellular access at a non-access stratum (NAS) layer, and provide a first congestion indication from the NAS layer to lower layers for non-cellular ac...