ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,336, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"UE optimization in EPS fallback fast return procedure" was invented by Kaikai Yang (Xian, China), Haojun Wang (Xian, China), Jie Ren (Xian, China) and Zhenqing Cui (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE starts a procedure for a mobile terminated (MT) or mobile originated (MO) call in a first radio access technology (RAT) network. The UE receives a first command for the UE to move to a second RAT network to continue the call, and in response est...