ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,268, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Scheduling request management" was invented by Benoist Sebire (Tokyo), Chunli Wu (Beijing) and Samuli Turtinen (Ii, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to apparatus, method and computer readable storage media of scheduling request management. The method includes in accordance with a determination that data on a logical channel is available for transmission, determining, at an apparatus, whether there is pending data available for transmission on one or more further logical channels; and in accordance ...