ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,939, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"First node, third node, fourth node and methods performed thereby, for handling parameters to configure a node in a communications network" was invented by Kaushik Dey (Kolkata, India), Ashis Kumar Roy (Durgapur, India), Dhiraj Nagaraja Hegde (Bengalore, India), Abhishek Sarkar (Bengaluru, India) and Konstantinos Vandikas (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by a first node (111), for handling parameters to configure a second node (112). The first node (111) determines (207) parameters to configure the second node...