ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,559, issued on April 7, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Predictive back-off reporting in telecommunication systems" was invented by Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Sari Kaarina Nielsen (Espoo, Finland), Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various communication systems may benefit from selectively monitoring alternative links. In certain example embodiments, an apparatus may comprise at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one m...