ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,243, issued on April 7, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Service request and response handling" was invented by Maria Cruz Bartolome Rodrigo (Madrid), David Castellanos Zamora (Madrid) and Jose Miguel Dopico Sanjuan (Torrelodones, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for handling a first response to a first service request. The method is performed by a first service communication proxy (SCR) node that is configured to operate as an SCR between a first network function (NF) node of a service consumer and one or more groups of second NF nodes of one or more service producer...