ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,357, issued on March 31, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Transmitting a signal" was invented by Leif Wilhelmsson (Lund, Sweden), Narendar Madhavan (Bara, Sweden), Christian Bergljung (Lund, Sweden) and David Sugirtharaj (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of this disclosure include a method of transmitting a first signal in a first frequency range. The method comprises detecting a second signal in a second frequency range within the first frequency range, wherein the second frequency range is smaller than the first frequency range, and determining a first threshold based on a ba...