ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,376, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"First node, second node and methods performed thereby for handling transmissions in a communications network" was invented by Gunnar Mildh (Sollentuna, Sweden), Oumer Teyeb (Montreal, Canada), Filip Barac (Huddinge, Sweden), Ajmal Muhammad (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Per-Erik Eriksson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first node, for handling transmission of one or more packets and/or one or more messages from a sending to a receiving node. The first node operates in a communications network having at least one in...