ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,942, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for enhanced paging in wireless networks" was invented by Curt Wong (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yildirim Sahin (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for managed or "intelligent" paging of a user device in one or more wireless networks. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide enhanced wireless services which enable prioritized paging operations of a given user device (e.g., a mobile 3GPP-compliant UE) within two or more mobile networks (e.g., PLMNs) when the UE is operating in a "dual...