ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,886, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SPREADTRUM SEMICONDUCTOR (NANJING) Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and apparatus for determining paging carrier, paging method and apparatus, storage medium, terminal and base station" was invented by Zhenzhu Lei (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for determining a paging carrier, a paging method and apparatus, a storage medium, a terminal and a base station are provided. The method for determining the paging carrier includes: determining a target carrier group based on a User Equipment (UE) identity, paging weights of a plurality of carrier groups and common p...