US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for multi-hop configurations in iab networks for reduced latency" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,917, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for multi-hop configurations in iab networks for reduced latency" was invented by Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Longda Xing (Cupertino, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Cupertino, Calif.), Sree Ram Kodali (Cupertino, Calif.) and Srinivasan Nimmala (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-hop configurations in integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) networks are provided for reduced latency. For modifications to a backhaul adaptation protocol (BAP) header supports faster da...