ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,548, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Pre-paging for deep coverage scenarios" was invented by Chiranjib Saha (Lakeside, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Bharat Shrestha (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications at a network entity. The network entity is configured to transmit a legacy paging message to a user equipment via a first set of resources, and a pre-paging message to a user equipment via a sec...