US Patent Issued to Apple on March 18 for "Latency management for integrated access and backhaul" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,264, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Latency management for integrated access and backhaul" was invented by Murali Narasimha (Lake Oswego, Calif.) and Bharat Shrestha (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node in an IAB network is disclosed. The IAB node can decode, at a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node, a first resource request received from one of a user equipment (UE) or a child IAB node, wherein the first resource request is associated with the UE. The IAB node can encode, at a mobile terminal (MT) of the IAB node, a second...