ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,103, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Mute notification control procedure" was invented by Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India), Colin Kahn (Morris Plains, N.J.), Apostolos Papageorgiou (Munich), Pallab Gupta (Bangalore, India), Bahare Masood Khorsandi (Munich) and Yannick Lair (Voisins le Bretonneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising at least one processing circuitry, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry. The at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processing ci...