ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,990, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for handover for mobile integrated access and backhaul nodes" was invented by Wei David Huang (Danville, Calif.), Vishwanath Ramamurthi (San Ramon, Calif.) and Mamadou Mamoune Niang (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a mobile integrated access and backhaul (M-IAB) base station configured to serve a set of user equipment (UE) devices; and a parent base station configured to establish a backhaul link for the M-IAB base station. The parent base station may be further configured to provide ...