US Patent Issued on Dec. 2 for "Communication network with nodes arranged as a synthetic wide area base station and repeater network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,116, issued on Dec. 2.

"Communication network with nodes arranged as a synthetic wide area base station and repeater network" was invented by Tat-Sing Huen (Danville, Calif.), Yee Chun Lee (Millbrae, Calif.) and Huei Meng Chang (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a wireless network comprising (1) first nodes that serve as a synthetic wide area base station for communicating data with a mobile handset and (2) second nodes that serve as a repeater network for propagating the data going to or from the synthetic wide area base station. The mobile handset includes multiple antennas that point in different di...