ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,565, issued on July 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods for determining a target network configuration" was invented by Kristijonas Cyras (San Jose, Calif.), Marin Orlic (Bromma, Sweden), Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan (Stockholm) and Saurabh Singh (Vallentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a node in a communications network for determining a target network configuration for use in providing services to a first operator on the communications network. The method includes obtaining characteristics of the first operator; obtaining, for a plurality of previous operators ...