ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,818, issued on April 15, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Resource authorization" was invented by Divya Sundar (Chennai, India), Savitha Aravindhan (Chennai, India), Vadivel G (Chennai, India) and Karthick Munirathinam (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for authorization of resources clustered into one or more resource groups, each resource group comprising functionally interdependent resources.The method includes receiving an authorization request signal indicative of a first resource for authorization, wherein the first resource is comprised in a first resource gr...