ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,374, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods and apparatuses relating to wireless communication" was invented by Jani-Pekka Kainulainen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Riikka Karoliina Dimnik (Espoo, Finland), Ali Karimidehkordi (Munich), Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland) and Lars Dalsgaard (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes a terminal device comprising: means for receiving, at the terminal device from at least one base station of a telecommunications network, configuration information which is indicative of a modified configuration for a measurement validi...