ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,905, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France) and Ioannis Mouroulis (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method, computer program, and apparatus for a network repository function that causes the network repository function to: alter, for a second network function, a value of an attribute in a network profile associated with said second network function; and signal, to a first network function, an identifier for said second network function in addition to an said a...