ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,169, issued on May 12, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Device and method for forwarding data from a remote device to a network node" was invented by Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani (Aalborg, Denmark), Berthold Panzner (Holzkirchen, Germany), Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Munich) and Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate apparatus and method for relaying data from a remote wireless device to a base station with reduced latency is discussed. The method includes the steps of receiving a transmission having contr...