ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,525, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Systems, methods, and computer program products for delaying a user equipment paging operation in a network based on propagation channel characteristics" was invented by Torgny Palenius (Barseback, Sweden) and Lars Nord (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a network node includes receiving a request to trigger a paging procedure based on receipt of downlink data in a core network from an application server (AS) and determining, responsive to receiving the request to trigger the paging procedure, whether to delay paging of a user equipment...