ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,439, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ethernovia Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network layer device with extended transmission range" was invented by Hossein Sedarat (San Jose, Calif.), Ramin Shirani (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Christopher Mash (Harpenden, Great Britain), Roy T. Myers Jr. (Morgan City, Calif.) and Darren S. Engelkemier (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for a network layer device, such as a physical layer network device based on an IEEE 802.x network standard, with extended transmission range. In particular, some embodiments enable a network layer device, that is designed to suppo...