ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,201, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Guard period determining method, network node, and storage medium" was invented by Shuyan Peng (Dongguan, China), Huan Wang (Dongguan, China) and Jinhua Liu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guard period determining method includes: in a case that a parent integrated access backhaul (IAB) node of an IAB node supports that distributed unit (DU) receive and mobile termination (MT) receive are performed simultaneously, setting a first guard period for part of an MT transmit time period of the IAB node."

The patent was filed o...