ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,460, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Intelligent paging for user equipment devices" was invented by Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, Va.) and William Beckwith (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent paging for User Equipment (UE) devices in idle mode or inactive mode is disclosed. A UE device that is in idle or inactive mode may be temporarily brought into active mode to acquire its location using intelligent paging. This allows the requesting entity to track the UE device. The location of UE devices may be tracked at the Cell-ID level or at a more accurate level, such as with la...