ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,105, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Data collection optimization" was invented by Karthik Upadhya (Espoo, Finland) and Akshay Jain (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for data collection optimization. Such measures exemplarily comprise selecting, out of a plurality of radio equipment entities, a set of radio equipment entities, based on correlation information reflecting at least temporal and/or spatial correlation among data from said plurality of radio equipment entities, and determining a movement trajectory for a movable data collection ...