ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,024, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"UDSF record retrieval and deletion" was invented by Ioannis Mouroulis (Athens, Greece), Ulrich Wiehe (Bad Hersfeld, Germany), Jonathan Little (Stroud, Great Britain) and Vishal Gupta (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a search or delete request towards a storage entity storing data in a plurality of records, an identifier list indicating identifiers associated with specific records to be processed is included, and the request including the identifier list is transmitted."

The patent was filed on Aug. 5, 2022, under Application No. 17/882...