ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,603, issued on June 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for physical cell identifier collision detection" was invented by Yanping Dang (Beijing), Jinhua Liu (Beijing), Bo Zhong (Beijing) and Serdar Sahin (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for PCI collision detection. A method in a first network node comprises: receiving cell information of a second cell generated by a second network node, wherein the cell information comprises PCI of the second cell and position information of the second network no...