ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,436, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Delay information" was invented by Claudio Rosa (Aalborg, Denmark), Morten Toft (Aalborg, Denmark), Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark), Daniela Laselva (Aalborg, Denmark), Ali Karimidehkordi (Munich) and Roberto Maldonado (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product for: performing channel availability monitoring on an operating channel for transmitting uplink control information for transmitting a data packet, in response to determining that the operating channel is available for transmitting the ...