ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,223, issued on April 1, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Managing notifications for communication surveillance" was invented by Olaf Pollakowski (Berlin), Jing Ping (Sichuan, China) and Anatoly Andrianov (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for the management of heartbeat notifications, for instance, in a service based management architecture are provided. One method may include receiving, from a first entity, information comprising one or more attributes relating to management of an emission of heartbeat notifications at a second entity....