ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,424, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Techniques for passive intermodulation avoidance" was invented by Torbjorn Wigren (Uppsala, Sweden), Mark Wyville (Ottawa) and Martin Allander (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for passive intermodulation (PIM) avoidance. A method is performed by a controller. The method includes determining, based on presence of uplink PIM, to which fractions of transmission resources within a transmission slot a transmission power reduction factor is to be applied. The fraction of transmission resources is, in a logarithmic domain and acc...