ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,116, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication control method" was invented by Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan) and Henry Chang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control method includes broadcasting, by a first relay node configured to manage a cell, relay node support information indicating that the cell supports the relay node, communicating, by the first relay node, a failure-related notification indicating that a failure has occurred in a backhaul link, and stopping, by the first relay node, the broadcasting of the relay node support information according to the co...