ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,701, issued on March 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for radio communications" was invented by Magnus Nilsson (Lund, Sweden), Peter Jakobsson (Lund, Sweden), Per Ingelhag (Alingsas, Sweden), Sten Wallin (Enskede, Sweden), Joakim Plahn (Taby, Sweden), Martin Isberg (Lund, Sweden), Torsten Carlsson (Lund, Sweden), Peter Svensson (Lund, Sweden), Agneta Ljungbro (Bjarred, Sweden), Orjan Renstrom (Spanga, Sweden) and Dandan Hao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a system comprises a chain of serially coupled nodes, including a central processing ...