ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,159, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Method for connecting an integrated access backhaul node to operation and maintenance system" was invented by Per-Erik Eriksson (Stockholm), Filip Barac (Huddinge, Sweden), Marco Belleschi (Solna, Sweden) and Ajmal Muhammad (Sollentuna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a child Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) node that comprises a IAB-Mobile Termination, IAB-MT includes transmitting, to a network node operating as a parent node with respect to the child IAB node, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) setup request message ...