ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,924, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for determining propagation delays" was invented by Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Troels Emil Kolding (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: means for measuring a downlink reference signal received from an access node (500); means for selecting an antenna panel of the user equipment receiving the best quality downlink reference signal from a primary angular direction to be used for a connection to the access node (...