US Patent Issued to Teleonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on April 22 for "Functional part selection in a disaggregated base station" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,695, issued on April 22, was assigned to Teleonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Functional part selection in a disaggregated base station" was invented by Thomas Walldeen (Linkoping, Sweden), Stefan Eng (Linkoping, Sweden) and Torbjorn Ortengren (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to a method performed by a control plane, CP, functional part (415) of a base station, the method comprising establishing a transport network layer, TNL, association with a network function (440B) that supports a plurality of user plane, UP, functional parts of first base station; transmitting to the network fu...