ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,385, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods for inter-node reporting of energy consumption related information" was invented by Reem Karaki (Aachen, Germany), Angelo Centonza (Granada, Spain), Henrik Ryden (Stockholm), Luca Lunardi (Genoa, Italy), Pablo Soldati (Solna, Sweden) and Ioanna Pappa (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first network is provided. The method includes the first network node generating a first message, the first message comprising a request relating to an energy or power consumption status of a second network node. The method...