US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on July 29 for "Relay control system, relay apparatus, and relay control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,132, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Relay control system, relay apparatus, and relay control method" was invented by Masashi Iwabuchi (Musashino, Japan), Yoghitha Ramamoorthi (Musashino, Japan), Tomoaki Ogawa (Musashino, Japan) and Yasushi Takatori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay apparatus includes a plurality of reflection elements that applies independent phase shifts to an incoming wave, a communication circuitry that receives transmission point information from one or more transmission points, an element allocation circuitry, and a phase control circuitry...