ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,940, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Paging early indications in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Lianghai Ji (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Linhai He (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Qiang Wu (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Mohamad Sayed Hassan (Paris), Mehmet Izzet Gurelli (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Karthik Anantha Swamy (La Jolla, Calif.).

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 communicate a connection release message via a first beam to release a connection between the UE ...