ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,742, issued on May 19, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Mapping information for integrated access and backhaul" was invented by Oumer Teyeb (Montreal, Canada), Filip Barac (Huddinge, Sweden) and Gunnar Mildh (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method performed by central unit control plane, CU-CP, of a base station for providing Integrated Access and Backhaul, IAB, bearer mapping information is disclosed. The base station is configured as a donor base station for one or more IAB nodes. The method comprises transmitting, to a distributed unit DU of the base station whi...