ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,999, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cost-based route selection for IAB node migration" was invented by Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of communications nodes are configured to form a wireless backhaul network to communicate data from a core network of the wireless communications network for transmitting to one or more communications devices or to communicate data to the core network received from the one or more co...