ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,979, issued on July 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Implicit indication of centralized unit (CU) integrated access backhaul (IAB) capability" was invented by Oumer Teyeb (Montreal, Canada) and Filip Barac (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods, performed by a mobile terminal (MT) of an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node in a radio access network (RAN), for reporting capabilities of cells in the RAN. Such methods include detecting one or more cells in the RAN and determining whether the one or more cells support IAB (e.g., by receiving information broadc...