ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,411, issued on May 12, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Data transmission" was invented by Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland) and Ping-Heng Kuo (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means for: determining at least one expected arrival sequence of one or more expected data units to be transmitted over at least one network system; determining if at least one of the one or more expected data units does not arrive for transmission over the at least one network system as expected; and if it is determined that at least one of the one or more expected data units does not arrive for transmission ove...