US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on May 20 for "Methods and apparatuses for relaying data in wireless networks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,819, issued on May 20, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Methods and apparatuses for relaying data in wireless networks" was invented by Vidur Bhargava (Austin, Texas), Sriram Vishwanath (Austin, Texas) and Jubin Jose (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid cellular and non-cellular multi-hop communication device, including a hand-held wireless device having one or more antennas, a cellular wireless interface connected to at least some of the one or more antennas, and a non-cellular wireless interface connected to at least some of the one or more antennas. The non-cellul...