ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,213, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Delaying UE radio capability ID (URCID) update for EPLMN" was invented by Mona Agrawal (San Diego), Haris Zisimopoulos (London), Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam (San Diego), Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Masato Kitazoe (Tokyo) and Osama Lotfallah (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for optimizing procedures to update a UE radio capability ID (URCID) when a UE moves to a new Public Land Mobile Network (PLM...