US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 20 for "Method, apparatus and computer program" (French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,194, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, apparatus and computer program" was invented by Sankaran Balasubramaniam (Bangalore, India) and Anna Pantelidou (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising means for determining, by the apparatus, that position information of a user equipment is needed for one or more functions to be performed at the apparatus; and means for triggering a location procedure for obtaining positioning information of the user equipment, in response to the determining that position information of the user equipment is needed...