ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,933, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Techniques for time-controlled user data privacy" was invented by Paul McLachlan (San Francisco), Hector Caltenco (Oxie, Sweden) and Konstantinos Vandikas (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for providing and facilitating time-controlled data for preserving privacy of data sources. Embodiments are provided herein for methods, processes, devices, network nodes, computer program products, and computer-readable media. In some embodiments, a network node receives first data for a first data t...