ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,012, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment aided early paging indicator clustering" was invented by Ashutosh Vinod Agrawal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a subgroup preference indication that indicates a UE-preferred subgroup of an early paging indicator (EPI). The UE may receive an EPI subgroup assignment for the I. Numerous other aspects are described."

The patent was filed on Nov. 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/499,982.

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