ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,946, issued on July 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Configuration of a communications network" was invented by Efthymios Stathakis (Stockholm), Arthur Gusmao (Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Yu Wang (Solna, Sweden), Swarup Kumar Mohalik (Bangalore Karnataka, India), Martha Vlachou-Konchylaki (Stockholm) and Joerg Niemoeller (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuration in a communications network includes: obtaining operational data relating to operation of at least one network node, the operational data including, for each of a plurality of time periods, data relating...