ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,179, issued on April 14, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for service subscription auditing" was invented by Sankaran Balasubramaniam (Bangalore, India) and Alistair Urie (Issy les Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means for implementing a near-real-time radio access network intelligent controller; means for detecting an event triggering a need for an auditing of active service subscriptions at an associated access node; means for transmitting a service subscription audit request to said access node; means for receiving a service subscription audit resp...