ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,328, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for switching of data transmission between radio access technologies for early data transmission" was invented by Rapeepat Ratasuk (Inverness, Ill.), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India), Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland) and Michel Robert (Vanves, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one proces...