ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,055, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Mu He (Munich), Bruno Landais (Lannion, France), Christian Mannweiler (Munich), Xin Wang (Qingdao, China), Xinxin Wang (Qingdao, China) and Hanxiao Du (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for, an apparatus for, and a computer program for a second network repository function for causing an apparatus of the second network repository function to when operating in a second domain: signal an indication to a first network repository function operating in a...