ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,963, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Resource allocation based on direct current location" was invented by Hiromasa Umeda (Tokyo), Petri Juhani Vasenkari (Espoo, Finland), Toni Harri Henrikki Lahteensuo (Espoo, Finland) and Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method comprising receiving, from a terminal device, a message comprising at least an indication of a direct current location associated with the terminal device; determining an effective channel bandwidth for uplink based at least partly on the direct current location associated with the termin...