ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,144, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Handover for a device served by an IAB node" was invented by Omer Bulakci (Munich), Hajo Bakker (Eberdingen, Germany), Ilkka Keskitalo (Oulu, Finland), Oliver Blume (Stuttgart, Germany) and Xiang Xu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to handover for a device(s) served by an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node. A first device receives indication information indicating a change of service availability of a second device that serves at least one third device. The first device determines, ...