ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,401, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Configuration of a wireless communication device to facilitate angle-of-arrival measurements at a re-configurable repeater device" was invented by Jose Flordelis (Lund, Sweden), Erik Bengtsson (Eslov, Sweden), Fredrik Rusek (Eslov, Sweden), Olof Zander (Sodra Sandby, Sweden) and Kun Zhao (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access node-e.g., a base station-provide a wireless communication device with a configuration of a reference-signal transmission in response to a need to facilitate angle-of-arrival measurements a reconfigurable repeater device."

The p...