ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,868, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Tracking of a target in a wireless communication network" was invented by Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Alessandro Mordacci (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network equipment (10) is configured for use in a wireless communication network (12). The network equipment (10) is configured to receive, over an interface (22) with radio equipment (14), a request (24) for information (26) based on which is determinable an unobfuscated identifier (20) associated with a target (16) being tracked by the radio equipment (14...