ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,848, issued on April 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Random access type selection based on accuracy of satellite positioning information" was invented by Frank Frederiksen (Aalborg, Denmark), Jeroen Wigard (Aalborg, Denmark) and Konstantinos Manolakis (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments relate to performing random access to a communication network. An apparatus may determine satellite positioning information comprising a location of the apparatus and/or time information. The apparatus may determine an estimate of the accuracy of the satellite positioning information and sel...