ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,055, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Analytics control" was invented by Xin Wang (Qingdao, China), Gerald Kunzmann (Munich), Bruno Landais (Lannion, France) and Fabio Giust (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides measures for analytics control. Such measures exemplarily comprise receiving, from a network entity consuming analytics, an analytics demand including an input data identifier indicative of input data on the basis of which said analytics are to be performed, obtaining the input data based on the input data identifier, performing said analytics on the ...