ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,569, issued on May 27, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Allocation of tracking reference signals" was invented by Sami-Jukka Hakola (Kempele, Finland), Karol Schober (Helsinki) and Esa Tapani Tiirola (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: determining synchronization signal block(s) that have been transmitted in a serving cell; receiving group informat...