US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Hop-count indication in wireless systems" (New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,311, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hop-count indication in wireless systems" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Karl Georg Hampel (Jersey City, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for hop-count indication in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. An IAB-node may adopt and indicate multiple values for hop-count. The hop-count may be conveyed by a number of diffe...