ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,325, issued on July 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Core network becoming aware of PLMNs with disaster conditions" was invented by Ivo Sedlacek (Hovorcovice, Czech Republic) and Mikael Wass (Satila, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling User Equipments (UEs) to use a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) failing service under disaster conditions and to receive services from alternative PLMNs. In some embodiments, a method performed by a first network node comprises receiving, from a second network node, a first disaster roaming PLMN list. The method also comprises ...