ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,096, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling enhancements for simultaneous multiplexing in an integrated access and backhaul network" was invented by Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Luca Blessent (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Naeem Akl (Somerville, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Karl Georg Hampel (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a parent node in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network may transmit, to an IAB node ...