ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,320, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods, devices relating to lawful interception" was invented by Francesco Attanasio (Roccapiemonte, Italy), Giuseppe Celozzi (Naples, Italy) and Daniele Gaito (Pagani, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Lawful Interception Administration Function device (102) comprising a memory and a processor, the memory containing instructions which when executed on the processor, cause the LI ADMF device (102) to send to a Network Repository Function (110) a discovery request message for discovering at least one NEF device (103) and at least one App...