ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,249, issued on June 23, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Ordering and creating a subscription profile for a subscriber entity" was invented by Juha Saaskilahti (Espoo, Finland), Mia Meinander (Espoo, Finland), Petri Mikkila (Espoo, Finland) and Abu Shohel Ahmed (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for creating a subscription profile for a subscriber entity. A method is performed by a subscription provisioning server. The method comprises obtaining, from the subscriber entity, a request for download of the subscription profile. The request comprises capability ...