US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Dec. 16 for "Generating or providing IPV6 addresses" (Finnish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,862, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Generating or providing IPV6 addresses" was invented by Jari Arkko (Kauniainen, Finland), Ari Keranen (Helsinki) and Jan Backman (Karna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for generating an internet protocol, IP, address according to IPv6, for access to one of a plurality of wireless devices connected or connectable to a wireless network from an application node in a communications network is provided. As to a method aspect of the technique, an IPv6 address for access from the application node in the communications network to a...