ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,851, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program" was invented by Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India), Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France) and Anja Jerichow (Grafing bei Munchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a first apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: send (500), to a second apparatus, a request comprising information indi...