MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441010945 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, Finland, on Feb 16 for 'method, apparatus and computer program.'

Inventor(s) include Philippe Godin; Dongjoo Kim; Muhammad Majid Butt; Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan; Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran; and Navin Hathiramani.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 5, under issue no. 36/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "There is provided an apparatus comprising means for: sending, to a network exposure function, a first request to discover ambient devices within a geographical area, wherein the first request comprises information indicating the geographical area; and receiving, from a unified data management or unified data repository function via the network exposure function, a report comprising information identifying one or more ambient devices discovered within the indicated geographical area."

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