ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,967, issued on July 1, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"False base station detection" was invented by Vlasios Tsiatsis (Solna, Sweden) and Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment ("UE") in a wireless communication network can receive a plurality of signals from a plurality of nodes. The UE can further determine a plurality of radio signal strength measurements. Each radio signal strength measurement can be associated with a signal of the plurality of signals received from the plurality of nodes. The UE can further determine whether there is an indica...