ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,219, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for communication services" was invented by Yanyan Ding (Nanjing, China), Yong Yao (Nanjing, China) and Ying Yin (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for communication services. The method may be performed by a first device which is able to be attached to a radio access network node. The method comprises receiving a first message for a service from a second device via a short range communication. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, the method...