ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,793, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Enabling identification of objects" was invented by Richard Wiren (Vantaa, Finland) and Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a device (10) of enabling identification of a telecommunication equipment (30, 51, 52, 53, 54), and a device (10) performing the method. The present disclosure further relates to a method performed by a device (40) of performing identification of a telecommunication equipment (30, 51, 52, 53, 54), and a device (40) performing the method....