ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,746, issued on May 20, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Energy-efficient and RRC state aware radio resource allocation" was invented by Alba Jano (Munich), Wolfgang Kellerer (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany), Halit Murat Gursu (Munich), Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan (Unterhaching, Germany), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Rapeepat Ratasuk (Inverness, Ill.), Philippe Godin (Versailles, France) and Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of preserving UE and network resources while performing a paging procedure during cell congestion includes a network node informing...