ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,514, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Energy harvesting information supported user equipment scheduling" was invented by Muhammad Majid Butt (Naperville, Ill.), Ahlem Khlass (Massy, France), Rapeepat Ratasuk (Naperville, Ill.), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Naperville, Ill.), Navin Hathiramani (Dallas) and Gilsoo Lee (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of energy harvesting information supported User Equipment (UE) scheduling. The method includes reporting, to a network device in ...