ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,487, issued on June 2, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Enhancement on device detection session" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark), Benny Vejlgaard (Aalborg, Denmark), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark) and Nitin Mangalvedhe (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to device detection session. An apparatus acting as a reader of a device detection session monitors a response signal from a device during the device detection session. The device is operable to be activated by an activation signal transmitted from a first device of the ...