ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,770, issued on July 15, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Supporting IAB CP signaling over LTE" was invented by Gunnar Mildh (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Oumer Teyeb (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a first network node in an Integrated Access and Wireless Access Backhaul (IAB) network is provided. The method includes, in the absence of an New Radio (NR) link between the first network node and a second network in the IAB network, sending, to the second network node over Long Term Evolution, LTE, radio, one or more Stream Control Transmission Protocol/Internet Protocol (SCTP/I...