ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,961, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Alert and warning message protection in MSIM" was invented by Rishav Rej (San Diego), Qingxin Chen (San Diego), Subashini Krishnamurthy (San Diego) and Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus is configured to obtain, based on a first mobile alert associated with a first subscriber identity module (SIM) being scheduled for broadcast from a first network, an indication of receiver resources assigned for receiving the first mobile alert associated with the first SIM. The appa...