ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,883, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, apparatus and computer program for determining quality of experience of an application session class" was invented by Ankita Tondwalkar (Rochester, N.Y.), Devaki Chandramouli (Dallas) and Rainer Liebhart (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising means for determining a quality of experience value associated with a user equipment's application session, the quality of experience value being based on one or more values associated with a respective one or more quality of service metrics for the user equipment's ...