ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,329, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signal and communication system" was invented by Su Yi (Beijing), Yang Lu (Beijing), Meiyi Jia (Beijing) and Guorong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals, applicable to a first integrated access and backhaul node donor central unit (IAB-donor-CU) includes a first controller configured to: transmit a traffic offload request to a second TAB-donor-CU; and receive a reply of agreement of traffic offload or a reply of rejection of traffic offload transmitted ...