ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,712, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Providing data streams to a consuming client" was invented by Harald Gustafsson (Lund, Sweden), Ola Angelsmark (Ystad, Sweden) and Sambit Nayak (Orissa, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing data streams to a consuming client over a network interface wherein the data streams comprise message data streams based on streaming nodes indicative of message topics configured for storing and streaming message data, wherein each of the streaming nodes represents a data source device, and wherein interconnections between the strea...