ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,326, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Internet protocol address allocation for integrated access backhaul nodes" was invented by Gunnar Mildh (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, donor DU nodes and donor CU nodes, and computer programs are provided for allocating internet protocol, IP, addresses. A request is received at a donor DU node to allocate an IP address for a wireless node. The IP address is allocated for the wireless node by the donor DU node and the IP address is transmitted towards the wireless node. The donor CU node receives a message from a w...