ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,437, issued on May 27, was assigned to E.F. Johnson Co. (Irving, Texas).

"Distributed land mobile radio architectures" was invented by Arindam Roy (Plano, Texas) and Larry Emmett (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing communication in a distributed land mobile radio (LMR) system architecture. In some embodiments, the system includes a first controller associated with an LMR site. The first controller may be configured to control communication, via a communication channel, of a plurality of LMRs. In some embodiments, the system further includes a first repeater of a plurality of repeaters associated with the LMR...