ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,321, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Control channel repetition management" was invented by Alessio Marcone (Munich), Frank Frederiksen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Arman Ahmadzadeh (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for control channel repetition management. Such measures exemplarily comprise receiving, from a terminal, a connection request message, checking whether said connection request message is scrambled utilizing any of at least one temporary identifier other than a temporary identifier assigned to said terminal, and, if said connection request message is...