ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,073, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for load balancing devices connected to a base station via a network repeater" was invented by Robert J. Hartman (Plainfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may obtain load information indicating a load of a first base station, wherein the load is associated with devices connected to the first base station. The device may determine that the load satisfies a load threshold of the first base station. The device may determine that a network repeater is connected to the first base stat...