ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,932, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, computer program for repeating signals" was invented by Poul Olesen (Stoevring, Denmark), Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Axel Mueller (Massy, France) and Ali Karimidehkordi (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus performs receiving, via two different signal pathways, at least two different signals that are associated with different radio wave characteristics; changing the frequency of signal(s) to provide intermediate signal(s) with each having different frequencies; multiplexing the interme...