ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,260, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Network repository function services access authorization" was invented by Bruno Landais (Lannion, France), Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India) and Xin Wang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of NRF services access authorization. The method comprises generating, at a first device, an indication of whether an authorization is required for accessing a service provided by the first device; and transmitting the indication to a second dev...