ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,506, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and systems for service authorization for a product-related service to a subscriber in a communication network" was invented by Teresa Pascual (Karlskrona, Sweden), Jenny Osterling (Ronneby, Sweden) and Alexandre Carvalho Lousada (Lyckeby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing service authorization for a product-related service to a subscriber in a communication network. If the service authorization request for the subscriber is received prior to a beginning of a pre-execution time windo...