ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,663, issued on April 7, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, apparatus and computer program for multi-network registration and downlink data notification handling" was invented by Rajesh Babu Natarajan (Bangalore, India), Srinivas Bandi (Bangalore, India), Betsy Covell (Chicago) and Alessio Casati (West Molesey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for at a user equipment registered with a first network and a second network, accessing the second network and receiving at the user equipment from the second network a downlink data notific...