ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,791, issued on April 29, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Network-assisted fallback to contention-based random access" was invented by Ahmad Awada (Munich), Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam (Munich) and Andreas Lobinger (Grafing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for network-assisted fallback to contention-based random access. Such measures exemplarily comprise, at a target access point being a target of a handover of a terminal connected to at least one net-receiving work slice from a source access point, receiving a handover request including information on said at least one network s...