ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,712, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Relay apparatus and relay method" was invented by Yasuyoshi Kojima (Musashino, Japan), Kiyohiko Itokawa (Musashino, Japan), Daisuke Goto (Musashino, Japan) and Kazumitsu Sakamoto (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving unit receives a signal from a transmission terminal. A capacity specifying unit specifies a channel capacity related to wireless communication with a base station. A data generation unit generates waveform data representing the received signal. A data size of the waveform data increases as the channel capacity increases. A transmission unit t...