ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,332, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"RLF recovery method and apparatus for IAB network, and related device" was invented by Yuanping Zhu (Shanghai), Haiyan Luo (Shenzhen, China), Jing Liu (Shanghai), Zhenzhen Cao (Boulogne Billancourtt, France) and Yulong Shi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: a first IAB node sets up a first RRC connection to a target IAB donor by performing RLF recovery. The first IAB node sends a first message to a second node by using an SRB 1 or an SRB 2 or the first IAB node sends a BH RLF indication to the second node. The first IAB node...