ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,749, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"User device scheduling" was invented by Vuokko Tatjana Nurmela (Espoo, Finland), Filippo Tosato (Bures sur Yvette, France) and Stefan Wesemann (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium performing estimating spatial overlap of beams associated with one or more combinations of at least two user devices of a plurality of user devices of a mobile communications system based, at least in part, on angular direction of radiated power of the user devices, wherein the user devices inclu...