ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,363, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Integrated access and backhaul node" was invented by Thomas Haustein (Berlin), Roya Ebrahim Rezagah (Berlin), Thomas Wirth (Berlin) and Jasmina Mcmenamy (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improvements and enhancements of the functionality of integrated access and backhaul, IAB, nodes, for a wireless communication network are described, which includes one or more base stations or integrated access and backhaul, IAB, donors, one or more IAB nodes, the IAB node connected, directly or via one or more further IAB no...