ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,785, issued on June 2, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for authorizing IAB node connections based on IAB node identity information" was invented by Yuze Liu (Shenzhen, China), Shilin You (Shenzhen, China), Jin Peng (Shenzhen, China), Wantao Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaoji Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for wireless communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a wireless communication method includes storing, by a first network entity, mapping information and determining, by the first network entity, based on identification information and the mapping...