ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,520, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Managing frequency preferences" was invented by Omer Bulakci (Munich), Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz (Espoo, Finland), Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner (Budapest, Hungary), Ahmad Awada (Munich), Malgorzata Tomala (Wroclaw, Poland) and Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to an apparatus configured to enable priority configurations to be updated. The apparatus can be configured to perform receiving information indicative of at least one validity area for the apparatus wherein the at least one validity area comprise...