ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,766, issued on April 29, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India), Ahmad Awada (Munich) and Ingo Viering (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has means for causing a random access message to be transmitted from a communications device to a target cell while the communications device is connected to a source cell and for receiving from the source cell information indicating that the random access message has been received by the target cell."
The patent was filed on Feb. 4, 2020, under Application No. ...