ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,012, issued on June 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for fault mitigation in base station" was invented by Ming Li (Stockholm) and Huaisong Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for fault mitigation in a base station are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a faulty antenna element in an antenna array is detected. The antenna array transmits a first beam covering a predetermined range of directions. A target direction in which radiation power dropped due to a fault of the detected faulty antenna element is determined. A second beam pointing...