US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 4 for "IMS voice support in network using EPS fallback and having 4G coverage holes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,090, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"IMS voice support in network using EPS fallback and having 4G coverage holes" was invented by Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.), Abhishek Bhatnagar (San Diego), Ajith Tom Payyappilly (San Diego), Osama Lotfallah (San Diego) and Vitaly Drapkin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. The method may be performed by a UE. The method includes attempting to attach to or to perform a tracking area update in an EPS network to obtain voice services for a number of times. The method includes starting a modified timer based on a failure to ...