ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,898, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Determining beam directions of a repeater" was invented by Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.), Ashwin Sampath (Skillman, N.J.) and Navid Abedini (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining a spatial direction of a beam for retransmitting a wireless signal. A method that may be performed by a repeater includes receiving, at the repeater, a signal transmitted by a first node, the signal carrying data intended to be received by a second node. The method may also include determining, by the repeater, a...