ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,080, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yuanping Zhu (Shanghai), Yibin Zhuo (Shenzhen, China), Jing Liu (Shanghai) and Mingzeng Dai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes a first IAB node receives a first message from a CU of an IAB donor, where the first message indicates the first IAB node to be handed over from a first parent node to a second parent node, and the first message includes a first IP address of the first IAB node. The first IAB node determines first transport network layer asso...