ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,625, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Radio frequency allocation among wireless user equipment and integrated access and backhaul mobile terminations" was invented by David Z. Sun (Broadlands, Va.), Zheng Fang (McLean, Va.), Zheng Cai (Fairfax, Va.) and Yu Wang (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless access node serves an Integrated Access and Backhaul Mobile Termination (IAB MT). The wireless access node wirelessly receives an IAB request from the IAB MT over a frequency channel. The wireless access node determines an IAB subchannel in the frequency channel for the I...