US Patent Issued to Intel on June 9 for "Beam indication for IAB" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,665, issued on June 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Beam indication for IAB" was invented by Lili Wei (Portland, Ore.) and Qian Li (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system for beam indication in an integrated access backhaul (IAB) are described. A parent IAB distributed unit (DU) (IAB-DU) provides abeam restriction for restricting beams that a Mobile-Termination (MT) of a child IAB (IAB-MT) are not to use, an early physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) beam indication or physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) beam indication, or an explicit beam indication for transmission of an...