ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,040, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"User device positioning" was invented by Morten Toft (Aalborg, Denmark), Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark) and Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and comprising device is described, comprising: in response to receiving, at a user device, a positioning message from one or more of a plurality of network nodes, selecting a first network node from the plurality of network nodes, wherein the first network node is selected based on determining that highest tran...