ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,081, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Enabling fast download (DL) signaling for grand-child-node(s) in the new radio unlicensed (NR-U) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) deployment" was invented by Esa Tapani Tiirola (Oulu, Finland) and Kari Juhani Hooli (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided for method including determining, by a first node, a time domain timing structure that supports bi-directional communication, initiating a communication from the first node to a second node based on the timing structure, sending an indication from the first node ...