ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,299, issued on March 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Sensor data control" was invented by Michael Bjorn (Malmo, Sweden), Alexander Hunt (Tygelsjo, Sweden), Andreas Kristensson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden), Fredrik Dahlgren (Lund, Sweden) and Hakan Englund (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for controlling provision of sensor data.The method includes detecting a canvas request from the application, wherein the canvas request is associated with an execution request from the application to an application server.The method also includes-based on a privacy certification s...