ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,298, issued on March 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Service instance indication for resource creation" was invented by Yunjie Lu (Shanghai) and Yong Yang (Kallered, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation of a network node implementing a network function, NF, service producer in a core network for providing accurate information related to the selected service instance in the NF service producer and to allow the NF service consumer, when detecting a restart of the service instance, to perform end user service restoration (e.g. restoring UE IP connectivity), and/or to clean...