ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,883, issued on June 16, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Signalling process" was invented by Mihai Enescu (Espoo, Finland) and Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (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, for example a user equipment, configured to transmit, to a base station node, a request for at least one gap to be configured in an uplink transmission and/or downlink reception of the apparatus, during at least one configured gap of the apparatus, use at least one antenna array of the apparatus as a radar to determine a d...