US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Oct. 14 for "Distributed unit node, user equipment, and methods in a wireless communications network" (Canadian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,836, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Distributed unit node, user equipment, and methods in a wireless communications network" was invented by Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Oumer Teyab (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a Distributed Unit, DU, node for handling a message in a communication between a User Equipment, UE, the DU node and a Central Unit, CU, node. The DU node obtains a secondary security key from a network node. The secondary security key is associated with the DU node. The DU node receives the message from the UE or the C...