US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Jan. 27 for "Pre-fault detection of hardware degradation" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,145, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Pre-fault detection of hardware degradation" was invented by Lackis Eleftheriadis (Valbo, Sweden) and Bengt-Ake Bengtsson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and systems for pre-fault detection of hardware degradation; when embodied in a radio base station (RBS) of a wireless communications network, the method is characterized by: sensing at least a portion of an electrical waveform at a circuit location in the RBS; determining the radio resource load of the RBS proximate to the time of sensing the electrical waveform...