ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,397, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Enhanced carrier selection" was invented by Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Carlos Santiago Morejon Garcia (Aalborg, Denmark) and Rasmus Liborius Bruun (Norresundby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method in a communication system for enhanced carrier selection are provided. The solution comprises selecting a carrier for first transmission to a second apparatus; controlling transmission utilising the selected ...