ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,029, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Data collection coordination function (DCCF) data access authorization without messaging framework" was invented by Pinar Comak (Ankara, Turkey), Ferhat Karakoc (Istanbul), Christine Jost (Dalby, Sweden), Zhang Fu (Stockholm) and Ulf Mattsson (Kungsbacka, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for a data consumer network function (NF) of a communication network. These methods include sending, to a network repository function (NRF) of the communication network, a request for an access token for the following: a service...