ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,045, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Power reporting for integrated access and backhaul networks" was invented by John Michael Kowalski (Vancouver, Wash.) and Kazunari Yokomakura (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node comprises a set of plural communication circuitries. Each communication circuitry of the set is configured to perform wireless communications with at one or plural other IAB nodes. The IAB node comprises processor circuitry and transmitter circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to obtain, from a configuration command, an indicati...