ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,426, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Silent redial for video telephony calls" was invented by Xinning Shen (San Diego), Qin Xue Frantti (San Diego), Osama Lotfallah (San Diego), Flora Pui San Chan (San Diego) and Xiaomeng Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may use the techniques described herein to reattempt a video telephony (VT) call after receiving a rejection message indicating that a prior attempt at the VT call failed. In some cases, the UE may have a first configuration indicating that the UE i...