ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,234, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Test grants for base stations installed in protection areas" was invented by Mohammad Riaz Khawer (Wayland, Mass.), Milind M. Buddhikot (Bridgewater, N.J.), Sebastian Yandun (Bloomfield, N.J.) and Kutlay Erman (Weehawken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectrum access system (SAS) includes a transceiver configured to receive a registration request from a first base station in response to the first base station being installed. The SAS also includes a processor configured to allocate a channel in a shared spectrum and a transmission power...