ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,950, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Validity indication as a function of confidence level" was invented by Anna Pantelidou (Antony, France) and Anatoly Andrianov (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for indicating validity as a function of confidence level. A requesting network entity may receive a prediction request from a requesting network entity that comprises timing information indicating when a prediction needs to be obtained. The receiving entity may then transmit a response to the requesting network entity ass...