US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 16 for "Remote beam steering for a millimeter wave repeater" (Arizona, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,645, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Remote beam steering for a millimeter wave repeater" was invented by Bruce Geren (Chandler, Ariz.), Wayne Ballantyne (Chandler, Ariz.), Gregory Chance (Chandler, Ariz.), Xi Li (Chandler, Ariz.), Peter Pawliuk (Tempe, Ariz.) and Nebil Tanzi (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device can include modem circuitry to connect the UE to a repeater over a side-link connection. The device can also include processing circuitry to control a repeater beamforming process to select a beam angle from the repeater to a base station ...