ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,601, issued on July 21, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Device positioning" was invented by Jeroen Wigard (Aalborg, Denmark), Frank Frederiksen (Aalborg, Denmark), Enric Juan (Aalborg, Denmark) and Rafhael Medeiros De Amorim (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, such as a user equipment, configured at least to process a measurement instruction received in the apparatus from a cellular communication system, based on the measurement instruction, measure a received signal strength of a signal from each cell of a f...