ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,933, issued on April 8, was assigned to CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY (Chennai, India) and INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS (IITM) (Chennai, India).

"Method and system for resource allocation and timing alignment in integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network" was invented by Deepak Padmanabhan Maya (Chennai, India), Chandrasekaran Mohandoss (Chennai, India), Thirunageswaram Ramachandran Ramya (Chennai, India), Jeniston Deviraj Klutto Milleth (Chennai, India) and Bhaskar Ramamurthi (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving at least one parameter associated with the each of at leas...