ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,079, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Provision of distributed paging occasions" was invented by Johan Rune (Lidingo, Sweden) and Claes-Goran Persson (Mjolby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, methods are provided to operate a base station of a wireless communication network. For example, parameters may be generated that define a plurality of potential PDCCH monitoring occasions and that define a plurality of paging occasions, wherein each one of the plurality of paging occasions includes a respective subset of the plurality of potential PDCCH m...