ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,133, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods of calculating physical resource block utilization and related network nodes" was invented by Pradeepa Ramachandra (Linkoping, Sweden) and Sakib Bin Bedhwan (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, network node, and computer program are provided for operating the network node in a communications network. For each of a number (N(T)) of respective samples over a period of time (T), a respective number (M11,j(T)) of physical resource blocks (PRBs) for a first communication device for the respective sample is determined...