ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,904, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for wireless communication" was invented by Yibin Zhuo (Beijing), Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Le Yan (Shanghai) and Congchi Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to wireless communication in an IAB network. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: ciphering an uplink (UL) packet with a cipher configuration associated with a destination of the UL packet, wherein the UE is connected to a first integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor and a...