ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,689, issued on March 25, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for redundancy improvement in a communication system" was invented by Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, Texas), Laurent Thiebaut (Antony, France), Nicolas Drevon (Paris) and Yannick Lair (Voisins le Bretonneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product receive a traffic redundancy indication from a user equipment in a communication network or from a policy controller. The method, apparatus and computer program product determine whether traffic redundancy is needed for the radio access network ...