ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,480, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Access network with service-based interfaces" was invented by Omer Bulakci (Munich), Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France), Laurent Thiebaut (Antony, France), Thomas Belling (Erding, Germany), Anja Jerichow (Grafing bei Munchen, Germany), Hannu Flinck (Helsinki), Jens Gebert (Oberstenfeld, Germany), Christian Mannweiler (Munich), Subramanya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India) and Philippe Godin (Versailles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method comprising at least one of a) and b): a) monitoring whether a service request to produc...