ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,991, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable mediums to locate passive intermodulation" was invented by Yared Melese (Coppell, Texas) and Shahriar Shahabuddin (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access network element, such as a remote radio head (RRH) comprises at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the radio access network element to: compute a communication delay between the radio access network element and a source ...