ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,364, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment signaling of customize ringing signal capability" was invented by Chen Chen (Beijing), Yong Xie (San Diego), Yong Hou (Beijing), Yueming Teng (Beijing), Grace Wang (Beijing) and Carlos Marcelo Dias Pazos (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include systems and methods for wireless device signaling a network regarding customized ringing signal (CRS) capability and use of such information by the network. Various embodiments may receiving from the network an INVITE message notifying the wireless device of an incoming call, determin...