ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,112, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method for improved emergency call" was invented by Guojing Liu (Beijing), Dongsheng Wang (Beijing), Chaofeng Hui (Beijing), Fojian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Haibo Liu (Shanghai), Xiaomeng Lu (Shanghai) and Xuesong Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for improving emergency calls by a user equipment (UE) in certain scenarios. The techniques generally include receiving a trigger for the UE to perform a circuit switched (CS) emergency call via a first subscriber identity module (SIM) that is serving as a defa...