ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,287, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Improving voice over internet protocol (VoIP) call setup success rate and latency" was invented by Shuhong Wang (Shanghai), Bing Leng (Shanghai), Jing Zhou (Shanghai), Jian Li (Shanghai), Xuefeng Chen (Shanghai), Yan Wang (Shanghai) and Hao Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus improve Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call setup success rate and latency. The method provides for attempting a mobile originated packet switched call, by a user equipment (UE), across a packet switched network with a transmission control protocol (TCP) ...