ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,891, issued on May 26, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Channel filtering in a user equipment" was invented by Kim Nielsen (Storvorde, Denmark), Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani (Aalborg, Denmark) and Iwajlo Angelow (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment, method and computer program for adjusting an effective centre frequency of channel filter in a user equipment to improve the adjacent selectivity when the network is transmitting on an irregular bandwidth channel and the user equipment is receiving the signal via a channel filter that has a wider pass band than the bandwidth of the channel...