ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,429, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Tearing down a packet data session after a transition to a different subscription of a dual subscriber identity module dual standby user equipment" was invented by Hao Zhang (Shanghai), Fojian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Yi Liu (Shenzhen, China), Xianghua Chen (Shenzhen, China), Wei He (Shanghai), Yan Wang (Shanghai), Jian Li (Shanghai) and Jing Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a subscriber identity module (SIM) dual standby (DSDS) user equipment (UE) may transition a packet data session fro...