ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,116, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Integrated access backhaul with an adaptive phase-changing device" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Richard Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described for integrated access backhaul with an adaptive phase-changing device (APD) are described. In aspects, a donor base station determines to include an APD in a communication path for the wireless backhaul link with a node base station and apportions APD access to the APD for the node base station. The donor base station then commun...