ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,650, issued on June 9, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for power efficient paging procedures for multiple subscriber identity modules WTRUs" was invented by Ali Esswie (Montreal), Hussain Elkotby (Conshohocken, Pa.) and Ravikumar Pragada (Warrington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and configurations are discussed relative to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) in the form of a multi subscriber identity module (MUSIM). The paging information for the WTRU may be optimized for power consumption. The paging information may be modified to provide one or more of a ...