ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,366, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"RAN transport interface discovery" was invented by Fredrik Berglin (Kungalv, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a first node in a communication network includes detecting establishment of a new physical communication link with a second node in the communication network, receiving a link layer discovery protocol, LLDP, message from the second node, wherein the LLDP message may include a field that identifies an interface type that is to be supported over the new physical communication link, identifying a service associ...