ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,959, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Paging for network-based user equipment (UE)-to-UE communication" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support paging for network-based user equipment (UE)-to-UE communication. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication performed at a network entity includes identifying a UE-to-UE paging request condition originating at a s...