ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,731, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Simultaneous calling in 5G" was invented by Ankur Dauneria (New Delhi) and George Foti (Dollard des Ormeaux, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for simultaneous calling in a cellular communications system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first wireless communication device for simultaneous Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) sessions between the first wireless communication device and two or more other wireless communication devices comprises establishing a first IMS session with a...