ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,001, issued on June 2, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Client device operation mode indication, and related devices, methods and computer programs" was invented by Nhat-Quang Nhan (Reims, France), Kari Juhani Hooli (Oulu, Finland), Oskari Tervo (Oulu, Finland), Amir Mehdi Ahmadian Tehrani (Munich), Marco Maso (Issy les Moulineaux, France), Karri Markus Ranta-Aho (Espoo, Finland) and Alessio Marcone (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods and computer programs for client device operation mode indication are disclosed. A client device obtains a first indication indicating at least a time duration...