ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,347, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Paging based on cross-slot scheduling" was invented by Linhai He (San Diego) and Wooseok Nam (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user equipment (UE) that does not support cross-slot scheduling (CSS) and a second UE that supports the CSS may share a paging occasion (PO), and a base station that supports CSS may configure a set of variable K0 greater than zero to the second UE. The base station may page both the first UE and the second UE in the shared PO by transmitting a first paging message for the first UE in the shared PO with K=0, and transmitting...