ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,784, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Relay station, transmission method for relay station, and communication system" was invented by Kenichi Takizawa (Koganei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first relay station capable of performing, together with a second relay station, a non-replay relay for a first radio signal transmitted from a transmitting station for a receiving station having one antenna includes an antenna, a radio and a controller. The radio includes a receiver that converts the first radio signal into a baseband signal, an FIR filter that adds a delay to the baseband signal,...