ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,367, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nokia Technologies OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Service routing for user equipment" was invented by Janne Veikko Kaasalainen (Espoo, Finland), Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland), Malgorzata Tomala (Wroclaw, Poland) and Daniela Laselva (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising receiving by a control-plane network entity a service request from a user equipment; selecting by the control-plane network entity at least one control plane routing identifier for the user equipment; and sending by the control-plane network entity the at least one control plane routing identifier to the u...