ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,087, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Terminal registration processing for aerial services" was invented by Pallab Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for improvement of terminal registration processing for aerial services. Such measures exemplarily comprise, e.g. at a first network entity for managing network access, receiving information indicative of unmanned aerial vehicle related capabilities of a communication endpoint, discovering that unmanned aerial system related services are enabled for said commun...