ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,713, issued on May 27, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Method, apparatus and computer program" was invented by Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France), Narasimha Rao Pulipati (Redmond, Wash.) and Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising: means for providing, to a network repository function, a discovery request comprising a preferred locality query parameter, wherein the preferred locality query parameter comprises a plurality of location descriptions, and means for receiving, from the network repository function, a response to the discovery reque...