ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,541, issued on April 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods, apparatus and machine-readable mediums relating to traces in a wireless communication network" was invented by Paul Stjernholm (Lidingo, Sweden), Erik Westerberg (Enskede, Sweden), Mathias Sintorn (Sollentuna, Sweden), Patrik Karlsson (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Ulf Eric Andretzky (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a UE trace initiation node for a wireless communication network comprises transmitting, via a direct interface to a radio access network node or function, a trace request message comprising...