ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,942, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Energy awareness in cellular communication networks" was invented by Berthold Panzner (Munich) and Laurent Goix (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method comprising determining, by an apparatus, a cellular communication network providing at least one service flow for the apparatus, receiving by the apparatus, from the network, energy-related information about the network, wherein said energy-related information is associated with the at least one service flow and det...