ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,043, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Priority application and network bits for PDU handling" was invented by Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland), Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar (Tampere, Finland), Igor Danilo Diego Curcio (Tampere, Finland), Serhan Gul (Berlin), Lauri Aleksi Ilola (Tampere, Finland) and Saba Ahsan (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be configured to: receive, from a first user equipment, at least one real-time transport protocol header extension configured to handle at least one protocol data unit, wherein the at least one real-time transport p...