ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,582, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for paging carrier selection" was invented by Xiubin Sha (Guangdong, China), Bo Dai (Guangdong, China), Ting Lu (Guangdong, China), Jie Tan (Guangdong, China) and Li Niu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent document describes, among other things, techniques, and apparatuses for providing paging carrier selection based on a coverage enhancement level (CEL) and associated carrier specific configuration. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a wireless device, from...