ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,661, issued on July 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Protocol analyzer, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in which protocol error detection program is recorded, and protocol error detection method" was invented by Yusuke Ogihara (Tokyo), Atsushi Nakata (Tokyo), Takashi Usukura (Tokyo) and Yuji Simoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protocol analyzer of the present disclosure includes a protocol check circuit that relays a control plane and a user plane between a radio unit and a base band unit while performing detection of an error in the control plane and the user plane, and a failure detection packet ...