ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,815, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Interruption time reduction" was invented by Chitradeep Majumdar (Bangalore, India), Umur Karabulut (Munich), Ingo Viering (Munich), Panagiotis Spapis (Munich), Christian Rom (Aalborg, Denmark), Sanjay Goyal (Murray Hill, N.J.) and Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of interruption time reduction. The method comprises receiving, at a terminal device and from a centralized network device, a configuration at least ind...