US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Power efficient communication with wireless smart repeater" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,490, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power efficient communication with wireless smart repeater" was invented by Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Chaoyang District, China), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego) and Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart repeater (SMR) can be configured to amplify and forward data from a base station based on received control information for managing power efficiency of on-...