ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,899, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for transitioning a user equipment to an inactive state" was invented by Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi (Hyderabad, India), Santosh Kumar Kancherla (Hyderabad, India) and Kishore Danta (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to transition of a user equipment (UE) to an inactive state are provided. In some aspects, a multi-subscriber identity module (MSIM) UE may request a network to transition one subscription or SIM to an inactive state when another subscription or SIM has a higher priority. In...