ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,924, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Location service enhancement based on usage of an user plane interface with a terminal device" was invented by Laurent Thiebaut (Antony, France), Mao Cai (Sichuan, China) and Shubhranshu Singh (Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, a terminal device may receive location service user plane (LCUP) assistance information in a control plane (CP) positioning protocol signaling. The LCUP assistance information includes at least one of addressing information of an LCUP function instance, and security informa...