ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,827, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Network nodes and methods performed thereby for handling subscriptions in a communications network" was invented by Emiliano Merino Vazquez (Madrid), Miguel Angel Garcia Martin (Madrid), Beatriz Maroto Gil (Madrid) and David Castellanos Zamora (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by a first node (111), for handling subscriptions in a communications network (100). The first node (111) operates in the communications network (100). The first node (111) sends (303), to a second node (112), a first indication. The first indic...