ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,259, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and devices for providing backhaul links" was invented by Keerthi Kumar Nagalapur (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jingya Li (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Sam Agneessens (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial base station is disclosed comprising a directive backhaul antenna for obtaining a backhaul link to a ground-based donor base station. The directive backhaul antenna is arranged on a body of the aerial base station such that a direction of a main beam of the directive backhaul antenna towards the donor base station is essentia...