ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,149, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Operating method for IAB node in wireless communication system, and apparatus using same" was invented by Hyangsun You (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunsoo Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of operating an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node including a mobile terminal (MT) and a distributed unit (DU) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus using the method. The method identifies a specific resource supporting the simultaneous operation of the MT and the DU, and according to a type of a first sig...