US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Techniques for smart repeater operations in unlicensed bands" (New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,066, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for smart repeater operations in unlicensed bands" was invented by Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Naeem Akl (Somerville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A relay device operating in an unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum band may receive a channel occupancy time (COT) indication from a first wireless device via a control message, a prea...