ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,118, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for user plane path failure and recovery handling" was invented by Jinyin Zhu (Shanghai), Yingjiao He (Shanghai), Kai Zhang (Shanghai) and Yong Yang (Kallered, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for user plane path failure and recovery handling. A method comprises detecting that a user plane path is failed; and monitoring the user plane path within a configurable period to determine whether the user plane path is recovered or not."

The patent was fi...