US Patent Issued to Apple on May 20 for "Downlink (DL) transmission timing of integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,729, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Downlink (DL) transmission timing of integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node" was invented by Honglei Miao (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access node comprises one or more processors configured to determine a first reference timing of a first communication connection between the radio access node and a second, parent radio access node; determine a second reference timing of a second communication connection between the radio access node and a third, child radio access node; a memory storing the first and second reference timings; the one or more...