ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,399, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Paging method and apparatus" was invented by Cheng Li (Shanghai), Xin Gao (Beijing) and Yi Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a paging method and an apparatus, to reduce paging overheads, and relate to the field of wireless communication technologies. In the method, a serving network device may receive positioning area information. A positioning area represented by the positioning area information herein is used by a terminal device to send an SRS in an inactive mode or an idle mode. The serving...