ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,203, issued on July 22, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Network selection with stateless network functions" was invented by Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, Texas) and Alessio Casati (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various communication systems may implement network management tools to help manage registration requests from a user equipment. For example, network functions in a communication system with a shared data layer may be used to manage requests from the user equipment. A method may include transmitting a request from a user equipment to a network function. The method may also include ...