ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,121, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Secure data collection in fifth generation system (5GS)" was invented by Zhang Fu (Stockholm), Pinar Comak (Ankara, Turkey), Ulf Mattsson (Kungsbacka, Sweden) and Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for secure data collection in Fifth Generation System (5GS) are provided. In some embodiments, a Data Collection Coordination Function (DCCF) in a data management framework is adapted to receive, from a first data consumer, a subscription request message, determine a data producer for the particul...