ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,249, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Shared reference for a charging data resource for PDU sessions in communications system" was invented by Robert Tornkvist (Karlskrona, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AMF of a communications system responds to receipt of a network attach request message of a UE requesting attachment to a network of the communication system, by sending a charging data request message toward a CHF containing a notification for the CHF to keep a charging data resource to track charging for network resources used for communications associated with UE whi...