ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,216, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Allocating resource entities for trace" was invented by Kiran Sathyanarayanamurthy (Tumakuru, India) and Anatoly Andrianov (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided receiving, at a network entity, a message from at least one peer network entity, determining, if the received message comprises information indicating a trace, at least one trace capable resource entity for processing the received message or subsequent messages of a session of the received message from a set of resource entities comprising trace capable re...