ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,284, issued on March 31, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland), Mihai Enescu (Espoo, Finland), Sami-Jukka Hakola (Kempele, Finland), Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark) and Matha Deghel (Montrouge, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus for a terminal, apparatus for a terminal, the apparatus being caused to determine that at least one uplink resource is associated with a reduced uplink transmission power; and transmit an identification of the at least one uplink resource to a network app...