ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,083, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Muting pattern signaling in IAB inter-node measurement" was invented by Boris Dortschy (Hagersten, Sweden), Erik Dahlman (Stockholm), Yezi Huang (Taby, Sweden), Lei Bao (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Behrooz Makki (Pixbo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a wireless relay node operating in a wireless communications network obtains (602), for each of one or more other wireless relay nodes, information indicating a muting pattern for muting of synchronization signal blocks, SSBs, by the other wireless relay node. The wireless relay...