ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,131, issued on July 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Multi-transmission and reception point (TRP) redundancy and soft combining with reduced latency" was invented by Magnus Hurd (Stockholm), Ying Sun (Taby, Sweden), Jianwei Zhang (Solna, Sweden), Shiwei Gao (Nepean, Canada) and Siva Muruganathan (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a network node configured to communicate with a wireless device is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to: cause a first physical d...