ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,516, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Downstream IAB node, method to operate a downstream IAB node, upstream IAB node, method to operate an upstream IAB node" was invented by Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu (Espoo, Finland), Ilkka Keskitalo (Oulu, Finland) and Juha S. Korhonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method to operate a downstream IAB, Integrated Access and Backhaul, node of an IAB network, is provided, wherein the method comprises: receiving a first radio resource configuration that indicates a use of radio resources by the upstream IAB node and by at ...