ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,762, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Link state switching method and communications device" was invented by Shuyan Peng (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a link state switching method and a communications device. The method includes: switching between a first link state and a second link state based on a first guard period, where the first link state and the second link state are link states of an integrated access backhaul IAB node in different transmission modes."

The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2022, under Application No....