ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,027, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatuses for providing extended access to a local area data network, computer program and computer program product" was invented by Nipun Sharma (New Delhi), Hans Eriksson (Sollentuna, Sweden), Paolo Debenedetti (Genoa, Italy) and Raoul Fiorone (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for providing access to a first local area data network, LADN, to one or more wireless devices positioned in a second geographic area outside of a first geographic area associated wi...