ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,244, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Compression schemes for relaying prior to decoding" was invented by Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide compression schemes for relaying prior to decoding. A method that may be performed by a wireless relay node includes receiving, from a transmitter node, a first packet intended for a receiver node, compressing pre-decoded samples of the first packet according to a compressi...