ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,593, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nokia Solutions & Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus comprising at least one processor" was invented by Silvio Mandelli (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Jinfeng Du (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause a network device to determine excess resources available for uplink transmissions to the network device and to use at least a portion of the excess resources for a beam refinement process assoc...