US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on June 24 for "Over-the-air configuration and management for new radio-based smart repeaters" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,594, issued on June 24, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Over-the-air configuration and management for new radio-based smart repeaters" was invented by Thomas Novlan (Jonestown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed to over-the-air configuration and management of new radio smart repeaters. To facilitate data forwarding, a smart repeater is configured to generate a forwarding layer that is logically above a physical layer of a mobile termination function (corresponding to a repeater link) and a physical layer of distributed unit function of the repeater equipment...