ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,265, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for using repeaters with multiple upstream nodes in wireless communications" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Ashwin Sampath (Skillman, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to establishing a control connection with at least a first node for receiving control information for providing a repeater function for two or more upstream nodes, communicating control information over the control connection from at least the first n...