ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,306, issued on March 4, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Detection and handling of failure on user plane path" was invented by Qian Chen (Molndal, Sweden) and Juying Gan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes a method of an endpoint of a user plane path between an access network and a core network in a telecommunication network, comprising: detecting whether a failure exists on the user plane path or not; and notifying a node in the core network of the failure in order for the node to handle the failure, upon detecting the failure. With this method, the failure can...