ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,692, issued on July 21, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus to prevent denial of call transfer" was invented by Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound, Texas) and Peter Leis (Penzberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for preventing denial of call transfer are provided. For example, a method, comprises: indicating, in an apparatus, that a call pull is initiated; categorizing, in the apparatus, an access attempt occurred for the call pull as a mobile-terminated access attempt; and making, in the apparatus, the access attempt to a network by transmitting a message to enable a process for ...