ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,591, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Chaitanya Aggarwal (Munich), Suresh Nair (Whippany, N.J.), Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India), Anja Jerichow (Grafing bei Munchen, Germany) and Laurent Thiebaut (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method, apparatus and computer program product for causing a network repository function to perform: receiving, from a network function service consumer, an access request for an access authorization token, the request comprising a first identification of the network functi...