ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,190, issued on June 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for monitoring and efficiently testing network resource availability and configuration for public warning systems" was invented by Ali Nader (Malmo, Sweden), Gertie Alsenmyr (Vallentuna, Sweden), Maria Hultstrom (Stockholm), Carin Omurcali (Solna, Sweden) and Angelo Centonza (Torrenueva Costa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulated Public Warning System (PWS) message is defined for efficient PWS testing. The simulated PWS message mimics a conventional PWS message, but indicates that it is not to be propagated acr...