ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,566, issued on July 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Reducing interference in a communications network" was invented by Serene Banerjee (Chennai, India), Joy Bose (Bangalore, India), Ranjani H G (Bangalore, India) and Venkatesh Umaashankar (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for reducing interference experienced at a first frequency due to transmissions made at one or more of a plurality of candidate frequencies. The method includes i) dividing the candidate frequencies into a first subset of candidate frequencies and a second subset of candidate frequen...