ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,143, issued on June 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Network node unit, a receiving element and methods therein for managing packet handling and packets" was invented by Tarik Hammam (Kista, Sweden), Anders Franzen (Trangsund, Sweden) and Janos Kover (Johanneshov, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments herein e.g. a method performed by a network node unit for managing packet handling in a communications network is provided. The network node unit reads through routing entries in a routing information base. The network node unit performs for one or more routing entries, a ...