ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,362, issued on July 29, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program" was invented by Stephen Mwanje (Dorfen, Germany), Abdelrahman Abdelkader (Munich) and Konstantinos Samdanis (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising means for: receiving a request from an operator to instantiate a closed loop for managing a communication system; identifying closed loop components based on the request; and instantiating a closed loop for managing a communication system with the closed looped components."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2022, under ...