ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,284, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Node, and method performed thereby, for predicting a behavior of users of a communications network" was invented by Abhishek Sarkar (Bengaluru, India), Kaushik Dey (Kolkata, India), Dhiraj Nagaraja Hegde (Bengalore, India) and Ashis Kumar Roy (Durgapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a node for predicting a behavior of users of a communications network is described. The node manages an artificial neural network. The node merges a first pre-existing predictive model of the behavior in a first group of users with a s...