ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,286, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Method for improving PN-NPN coexistence" was invented by Virgil Cimpu (Ottawa), Mats Buchmayer (Enskede Gard, Sweden) and Gunther Auer (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus for coexistence of a public network and a non-public network are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes selectively muting a downlink transmission to a public network (PN) based at least in part on whether the downlink transmission interferes with a non-public network (NPN) uplink transmission. According to another...