ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,334, issued on March 18, was assigned to ELISA OYJ (Helsinki).

"Uplink power control" was invented by Riku Ertimo (Helsinki), Henri Lahtinen (Helsinki) and Juho Poutanen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for uplink power control in a mobile network. The method is performed by obtaining (301) signal to interference and noise ratio, SINR, of a first cell of the mobile network; comparing (302) the SINR to current uplink power parameter of the first cell; determining (303) a new value for the uplink power parameter based on the comparison so that, if the SINR is higher than the current uplink power p...