ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,253, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Analytics and path selection" was invented by Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, Texas), Bruno Landais (Pleumeur Bodou, France) and Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving, at a network function from a requester of path selection information in a communications network, a request for path selection information between a first network entity and a second network entity in the communications network, determining a path between a first network entity and a second netwo...