ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,634, issued on May 5, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Update service operation for short message service (SMS) service" was invented by Yunjie Lu (Shanghai), George Foti (Dollard des Ormeaux, Canada), Shabnam Sultana (Montreal) and Qian Chen (Molndal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods tor an update service operation tor short message service, SMS, service are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method implemented in access and mobility management function, AMF, node (S104) includes performing an update service operation with a short message service function, SMSF, node to add...