US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program" (Finnish, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,291, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program" was invented by Vin Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner (Budapest, Hungary) and Hannu Petri Hietalahti (Kiviniemi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program are provided that relates to determining that a condition indicating that at least one first user equipment needs a sidelink communication with a second user equipment is met; and determining to use a first discovery model including broadcasting a discovery announcement to the at ...