ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,106, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for a radio network" was invented by Matha Deghel (Paris) and Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a first apparatus (102) comprising at least one processor (118), at least one memory (120) including computer program code, and at least one receiver (112), the at least one processor (118), the at least one memory (120), and the at least one receiver (112) configured with the computer program code to cause the first apparatus (102) at least to receive a first configuration and a seco...