US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on March 18 for "Network device, control device and methods therein" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,806, issued on March 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Network device, control device and methods therein" was invented by Jiang He (Beijing), Guoliang Gao (Beijing) and Michael Sien-Tsieh Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method in a network device. The method includes: determining a node delay associated with the network device and/or a link delay associated with a link between the network device and a neighboring network device; and transmitting to the neighboring network device a Link Layer Discovery Protocol Data Unit, LLDPDU, contai...