ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,361, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for discontinuous reception collision resolution for multi-SIM user equipment" was invented by Uttam Vyas (Hyderabad, India), Sumanth Kumar Kota (Hyderabad, India) and Rishika Tindola (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a device (120) with two SIMs (305a, 305b), the overlapping DRXs of the two connections is reduced by handovering one of the two SIM to a neighbor cell that satisfies a quality threshold."

The patent was filed on Dec. 16, 2020, under Application No. 18/005,882.

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