ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,876, issued on May 20, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Communication system" was invented by Juha Sakari Korhonen (Espoo, Finland), Esa Tapani Tiirola (Oulu, Finland), Henri Markus Koskinen (Espoo, Finland), Esa Mikael Malkamaki (Espoo, Finland) and Ilkka Antero Keskitalo (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed method for a network apparatus, the method comprising configuring the network apparatus to use a first transmit and/or receive pattern selected from a plurality of available transmit and/or receive patterns for performing discovery procedures with another network apparatus, whe...