ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,558, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus, base station and methods allowing reliable wireless communication" was invented by Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein (Erlangen, Germany) and Thomas Haustein (Potsdam, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to operate in a wireless communication network by generating and transmitting a first wireless signal using a resource element allocated to the apparatus is configured to receive a second wireless signal and to determine that the second wireless signal is to be forwarded within the wireless communication network. ...