US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on May 27 for "Facilitating network assisted overhead reduction in D2D discovery procedure" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,099, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Facilitating network assisted overhead reduction in D2D discovery procedure" was invented by Juha Pekka Karjalainen (Oulu, Finland), Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland), Sami-Jukka Hakola (Kempele, Finland), Jari Yrjana Hulkkonen (Oulu, Finland), Antti Arvola (Oulu, Finland), Satya Krishna Joshi (Oulu, Finland) and Antti Tolli (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium are provided for enabling beam based discovery and direct connectivity using network assisted beam discovery and corresponding...