ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,818, issued on July 15, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Relaying communications with mobile objects" was invented by Karthik Upadhya (Espoo, Finland), Mikko Aleksi Uusitalo (Helsinki), Martti Johannes Moisio (Klaukkala, Finland), Tero Johannes Ihalainen (Nokia, Finland) and Dani Johannes Korpi (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed, the apparatus comprising a means for receiving selection of a relay system associated with a base station (10) of a communications network, the relay system comprising a first antenna (15) for substantially fixed orientation towards an antenna (12) of t...