ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,343, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India) and Pallab Gupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for an apparatus, the apparatus, and computer program for the apparatus, that causes the apparatus to: maintaining a connection to a first network; receiving signalling indicating that the connection to the first network will be lost; and responding to the received signalling with an indication to proceed with the connection loss."

The patent was filed on Jan. 17, 2023, und...