ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,004, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Method and system for delivering dedicated services restricted to a service area" was invented by Andrea Allasia (Turin, Italy), Sergio Barberis (Turin, Italy) and Nicola Pio Magnani (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for delivering to a user, through a mobile communication network, a dedicated service restricted to an access-controlled service area includes, upon detection of an access of the user into the access-controlled service area by an access control system, controlling accesses of users to the access-controlled service area, identifyin...