ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,562, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and devices for routing and bearer mapping configuration" was invented by Lin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Wei Luo (Shenzhen, China), Mengzhen Wang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Zou (Shenzhen, China) and Xueying Diao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods and devices for routing and bearer mapping configuration in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. In one implementation, the method may include detecting, by an IAB entity, a failure in transmitting a packet via an egress link of an original routing path. The meth...