ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,222, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Extended channel quality report for 16-quadrature amplitude modulation in narrowband Internet of Things" was invented by Rapeepat Ratasuk (Inverness, Ill.), David Bhatoolaul (Swindon, Great Britain), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a first embodiment, a method may include transmitting to at least one user equipment at least one configuration of channel quality indication comprising at least one indication of whether downlink transmissions associated with...