ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,102, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Non-terrestrial progressive paging" was invented by Ali Esswie (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio network node may receive from a core network a beam pattern configuration and a progressive paging configuration comprising one or more paging subpattern indications. The node may calculate beams of the subpatterns based on information in the beam pattern configuration. The node may transmit a paging message according to indicated subpatterns according to an order in the progressive paging configuration. The progressive paging configuratio...