ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,741, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Responding to paging by multiple-universal subscription identity module devices" was invented by Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Juan Zhang (Beijing), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.) and John Wallace Nasielski (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for responding to paging by multiple-universal subscription identity module (multi-USIM) devices. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes camping on a first cell associated with a first universal subscriber identity module (USIM), where...