ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,952, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Function node and method in a communications network" was invented by Gaurav Bhatnagar (Delhi, India), Saurabh Gupta (Etawah, India) and Shishir Kumar Gupta (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a function node for handling a voice call from a first User Equipment (UE) to be received by a second UE in a communications network. The function node is associated with the second UE. The function node receives an invite message that relates to an initiation of the voice call from the first UE to the second UE an...