ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,748, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and device for locating passive intermodulation (PIM) source" was invented by Hao Ye (Beijing), Jinsong Yang (Beijing), Haiying Cao (Beijing) and Peng Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to a method and a device for locating a PIM source in a link comprising multiple segments. The method comprises: determining one of the multiple segments, in which a PIM source is located, at least partially based on delay intervals that are configured or predetermined for the multiple segments and a PIM loopback...