ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,959, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Operation of a user equipment within or as part of a telecommunications network using a control plane functionality" was invented by Josep Colom Ikuno (Korneuburg, Austria) and Reinhard Lauster (St. Poelten, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating or for modifying the operation of a user equipment within or as part of a telecommunications network includes: in a first step, the user equipment receives a request message, the request message being related to a specific service endpoint, and wherein the request message relates to or uses ...