ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,980, issued on July 1, was assigned to University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Cell-free wireless communication network for communicating with distributed users and related methods" was invented by Yasser Al-Eryani (Winnipeg, Canada) and Ekram Hossain (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication network comprises access points distributed across a geographical area and configured to wirelessly communicate with distributed user devices in the area, and a central server communicatively connected to the access points and configured to control the network. The access points are grouped, based on channel st...