ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,667, issued on April 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting passive intermodulation (PIM)" was invented by Zhongwen Zhu (Saint-Laurent, Canada) and Manoj Kopparambil Nambiar (New Westminster, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and computer readable media, for detecting and correcting passive intermodulation (PIM). The method comprises receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal. The method comprises providing the RF signal to a first and a second PIM detectors. The method comprises, upon detection of PIM b...