US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 16 for "Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" (Chinese, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,770, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Hannu Petri Hietalahti (Kiviniemi, Finland) and Mao Cai (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for an apparatus for a location service, the method comprising: receiving, from a network function, a location request to determine a location of a terminal, the location request comprising a first indication of a first area: determining whether the terminal is inside or outside of the first area; and sending, to the network function, a second indication of whether t...