ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,691, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Device, method, apparatus and computer readable medium for inter-CU topology adaptation" was invented by Henri Markus Koskinen (Espoo, Finland), Xiang Xu (Nanjing, China), Samuli Turtinen (Ii, Finland), Esa Malkamaki (Espoo, Finland), Matti Laitila (Oulu, Finland) and Thomas Hohne (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to for inter-CU topology adaptation. A first device establishes a communication interface between the first device and a second device. The first device receives from the second device a hando...