ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,112, issued on June 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).
"Method and apparatus for abstracting network resources in a mobile communications network" was invented by Paola Iovanna (Pisa, Italy), Teresa Pepe (Pisa, Italy), Filippo Ponzini (Pisa, Italy) and Fabio Ubaldi (Pisa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of abstracting network resources in a mobile communications network includes: determining a service coverage area for a class of service, the class of service defined by service parameters; determining a set of tracking areas that fall at least partly within the service coverage area;...