ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,307, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Methods and arrangements to relay packets" was invented by Minyoung Park (Portland, Ore.), Emily H. Qi (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Adrian P. Stephens (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas J. Kenney (Portland, Ore.), Eldad Perahia (Portland, Ore.) and Thomas A. Tetzlaff (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logic may enable client devices or access points to relay medium access control (MAC) frames through a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Direct network such as a network of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) connections to extend the wireless range of the devices or access points be...