ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,840, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Enhancement on integrated access and backhaul network" was invented by Esa Mikael Malkamaki (Espoo, Finland), Matti Einari Laitila (Oulu, Finland), Xiang Xu (Beijing) and Esa Markus Metsala (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for enhancement on the IAB network. The method comprises: receiving, at a first network device and from a first central device for controlling the first network device, a first message comprising configu...