ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,361, issued on March 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Maintaining N32 interface when using different radio access technologies" was invented by Ralf Keller (Wurselen, Germany) and Christine Jost (Dalby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of operating a first network node in a first communication network can include establishing a control plane interface between the first network node and a second network node in a second communication network. The process can further include communicating first control plane data via the control plane interface. The first control plane data can be...