ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,783, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Reporting regions of low or zero maximum sensitivity degradation" was invented by Hiromasa Umeda (Tokyo) and Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of wireless communications include enabling the UE to indicate region in the channel bandwidth of a band combination where the MSD is zero or small. The indication defines a frequency boundary where MSD is "low" (e.g., small or zero dB) and MSD is "high" (e.g., less than0 dB), and may contain a frequency offset from the centre of the MSD originating source to the boundary. Th...