ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,057, issued on March 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wireless relay station, wireless relay system, control circuit, storage medium, and wireless relay method" was invented by Hiroshi Nishimoto (Tokyo), Yasunori Kato (Tokyo), Manabu Sakai (Tokyo), Kenichiro Kamohara (Tokyo) and Hiroyasu Sano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless relay station to be included in a ladder-type wireless relay network along a moving route of a moving object includes a relay control unit that includes station identification information in the wireless relay network assigned sequentially along the moving route to each of ...