ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,219, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Repeaters capable of simultaneous repeating operation and power detection" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.), Ashwin Sampath (Skillman, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a repeater node. The apparatus may receive, at one or more first antennas of the node, a first signal via at least one first beam. The apparatus may measure, at one or more third antenna...