US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Oct. 27 for "Fronthaul network route tracing" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,347, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Fronthaul network route tracing" was invented by Paolo Debenedetti (Genoa, Italy), Paola Iovanna (Pisa, Italy) and Fabio Cavaliere (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for carrying and using fronthaul network tracing information. In an example, a method in a first RAN node includes recovering fronthaul network tracing information from a predetermined field of the frames in response to receiving frames of a predetermined type. The fronthaul network tracing information includes...