ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,194, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to EXFO OY (Oulu, Finland).
"Ad hoc radio base station" was invented by Juha Olavi Lehtikangas (Oulu, Finland), Tuure Risto Makela (Oulu, Finland), Antti Mauno Ilmari Jaaski (Oulu, Finland) and Taisto Antero Niiranen (Li, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ad hoc radio base station and a method for locating a user apparatus are presented. The method comprises setting up two ad hoc cells, a first cell of the two ad hoc cells providing an omnidirectional cell and a second cell of the ad hoc cells providing a directional cell, utilizing a set of directional or beamforming antennas, the main lo...