ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,317, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Matha Deghel (Massy, France), Sami-Jukka Hakola (Oulu, Finland) and Mihai Enescu (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises means configured to: receive information indicating that one or more of a plurality of indicators is to be changed from one of masked and unmasked to the other of masked and unmasked, wherein: the one or more indicators comprise one or more transmission configuration indicators; when an indicator of the plurality of indicators is masked, configurat...