ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,324, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Target cell selection of autonomous mobile repeaters" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by a mobile repeater. The mobile repeater measures broadcast signals from one or more target cells as the mobile repeater moves through a network. The mobile repeater selects one of the target cells, based on the measuring and side information. The mobile r...