ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,810, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Future-proof privacy" was invented by Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Sollentuna, Sweden), David Castellanos Zamora (Madrid) and John Mattsson (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node in a home network, HN, of a wireless device assigns a different priority to each of one or more parameter sets in a priority list. Each parameter set comprises one or more parameters used for calculating the subscription identifier. The network node provides the wireless device with the priority list to facilitate the calculation of the subscription id...