ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,000, issued on July 1, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Mechanism for enabling custom analytics" was invented by Dario Bega (Munich), Bahare Masood Khorsandi (Munich), Gerald Kunzmann (Munich), Yannick Lair (Voisins le Bretonneux, France) and Apostolos Papageorgiou (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use by a communication network element or communication network function configured to operate as an analytics entity and having an analytics logical function. The apparatus is caused to: receive a request, from a service consumer, for provision of a custom analytics service, process data retrie...