ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,673, issued on March 25, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for resource allocation" was invented by Henri Markus Koskinen (Espoo, Finland), Dawid Koziol (Glogow, Finland) and Esa Mikael Malkamaki (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay node within a network, the network further comprising at least one donor node coupled to the relay node, and a mobile termination coupled to the relay node and at least one donor node, the relay node comprising means for: receiving a configuration message; configuring the relay node, based on the configuration message, to perform at ...