US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 2 for "Network-controlled repeater devices, methods, and networks including same" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,100, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Network-controlled repeater devices, methods, and networks including same" was invented by John Michael Kowalski (Vancouver, Wash.), Atsushi Ishii (Vancouver, Wash.) and Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repeater node of a telecommunications network wirelessly communicates with a parent node and another node. The repeater node comprises receiver circuitry, processor circuitry, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive a frame of information from the parent node. The processor circuitry is configured to in...