ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,922, issued on April 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Gateway node, user equipment and method for enhancing a call session between user equipments using a data channel" was invented by Mario Bonja (Mirabel, Canada), Adithya Lakshminarayanan (Montreal) and Rabah Djanati (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a gateway node for enhancing a call session between a first User Equipment, UE, and a second UE in a communications network is provided. The second UE is associated to a Private Branch Exchange, PBX, node. When a call session has been established between the fir...