ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,179, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Relay station, information processing apparatus, and method" was invented by Kenichi Takizawa (Koganei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay station includes first antennas used for communication with the terminal station, a second antenna used for communication with a base station, and a radio device performing non-regenerative relay. The relay station transmits a first beam pattern with an maximum SINR of a received signal from the terminal station, the received signal including a part of self-interference and measured in a first slot of a wireles...