ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,786, issued on March 31, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Network node, user equipment and methods in a radio access network" was invented by Peter Alriksson (Horby, Sweden), Emma Wittenmark (Lund, Sweden), Stephen Grant (Pleasanton, Calif.), Havish Koorapaty (Saratoga, Calif.) and Reem Karaki (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring a received signal strength by a radio device in a radio access network, RAN, is provided. The radio device obtains a radio resource information indicative of a spatial domain of a radio resource for measuring the received signal strength. ...