US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on March 3 for "Mobile Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) Physical Cell Identifier (PCI) management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,425, issued on March 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Mobile Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) Physical Cell Identifier (PCI) management" was invented by Vishwanath Ramamurthi (San Ramon, Calif.), Arda Aksu (Lafayette, Calif.), Wei David Huang (Danville, Calif.) and Parvez Ahmad (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device obtains a Physical Layer Cell Identifier (PCI) pool for allocating to ad-hoc mobile Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes traversing a wireless network. The network device selects a first PCI for allocation to a first ad-hoc mobile IAB node loc...