ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,428, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods and apparatuses relating to reporting of user plane interruption times" was invented by Arled Papa (Munich), Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam (Munich), Halit Murat Gursu (Munich), Ugur Baran Elmali (Munich), Irina-Mihaela Balan (Munich), Ahmad Awada (Munich) and Krzysztof Kordybach (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes a terminal device configured to transmit a message relating to a change or addition of a primary cell of a secondary cell group, the message including (i) information indicative of a first user plane in...