Ericsson has filed its 5G Foundation patent application with WIPO (worldwide) and USPTO (US). As per Ericsson’s website “The patent application, which combines the work of 130 Ericsson inventors, is the largest in cellular communications in terms of number of inventors, anywhere in the world. It shows the industry how Ericsson has approached 5G standardization with a comprehensive view that connects individual inventions in a complete 5G telecommunications network, rather than focusing on any smaller individual inventions.”

The patent application contains all details required to build a complete 5G network, from devices, the overall network architecture, the nodes in the network, methods and algorithms, and also shows how to connect all this together into one fully functioning network. The invention is believed to have a huge impact on industry and society as it will provide low latency with high performance and capacity. This will enable new use cases like the Internet of Things, connected factories and self-driving cars.