ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,151, issued on July 28, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Network nodes, and methods performed in a wireless communication network" was invented by Afshin Abtin (Sollentuna, Sweden), Christer Gustafsson (Huddinge, Sweden), Ralf Keller (Wurselen, Germany) and Ann-Christine Sander (Skepplanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate a method performed by radio network node for handling communication of a UE in a wireless communication network. The radio network node is configured to determine to initiate or avoid initiation of a process for handing over communication of the UE ...