ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,473, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Uplink power control for distributed wireless communication" was invented by Zinan Lin (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sung-Hyuk Shin (Northvale, N.J.), Prabhakar R. Chitrapu (Blue Bell, Pa.), Philip Pietraski (Jericho, N.Y.), Mihaela Beluri (Jericho, N.Y.), Gregg A. Charlton (Collegeville, Pa.), Eldad Zeira (Encinitas, Calif.) and Alexander Reznik (Pennington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for power control for distributed wireless communication is disclosed including one or more power control loops associated with a wire...