ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,934, issued on June 3, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus and method" was invented by Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Torsten Wildschek (Gloucester, Great Britain), Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark), Timo Erkki Lunttila (Espoo, Finland), Laura Luque Sanchez (Nibe, Denmark), Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Yong Liu (Shanghai), Jianguo Liu (Minhang Shanghai, China) and Naizheng Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for a second user equipment, that causes the apparatus to perform: determining whether a synchronization s...