ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,943, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"User equipment paging monitoring" was invented by Seau S. Lim (Swindon, Great Britain) and Sudeep K. Palat (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system of paging using paging early indication (PEI) and subgrouping are described. A fifth generation nodeB (gNB) checks paging information of a UE from a limited paging container of the UE provided from the core network to determine whether PEI/subgrouping information is present. The limited paging container contains paging information of the UE that is provided in the UE capabi...