ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,377, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Pivotal Commware Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Time-division-duplex repeaters with global navigation satellite system timing recovery" was invented by Alexander Remley Katko (Seattle), Melroy Machado (Seattle), Marius Marcel Pop (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Jacob Tyler Repp-Bartel (Snohomish, Wash.) and Daniel Lee Schaeffer (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repeater for wireless communications systems can include a time-division-duplex (TDD) architecture with a timing recovery system for switching between uplink and downlink. In some approaches, the timing recovery system can receive a timing reference...