ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,074, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Paging early indication responses" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

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 entity, an indication that configures a paging early indication (PEI) response for one or more of: a UE subgroup; a paging occasion; or a beam direction. The UE may receive, from the network entity, a PEI. The UE may transmit, to the network entity, the PEI response based at lea...