ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,311, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Migration of user equipment in an integrated access and backhaul network" was invented by Keerthi Kumar Nagalapur (Gothenburg, Sweden), Per-Erik Eriksson (Stockholm) and Jingya Li (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for migrating UEs from node to an R-IAB node. A method is performed by a D-IAB node of the S-IAB node and the R-IAB node. The method comprises obtaining a request for replacement of the S-IAB node. The method comprises providing, to the S-IAB node, an indication of replacement of the S-IAB...