ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,951, issued on May 26, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Seamless customer data move between source and target charging function elements of a communications system" was invented by Armin Hodzic (Lyckeby, Sweden), Michael Nilsson (Lyckeby, Sweden) and Martin Fransson (Nattraby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging system includes a source charging function element of a communications system. The source charging function element includes at least one processing circuit that is operative to process charge events for network charging related to a customer identifier to write customer data in...