ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,636, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Inactive state UE context handling in service-based (r)adio access network" was invented by Omer Bulakci (Munich), Subramanya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India) and Ece Ozturk (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some example embodiments, there may be provided a data storage function for handling user equipment context information. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, from a first network node via a service-based interface, at least one context information for at least one user equipment in a r...