ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,044, issued on June 30, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Devices, infrastructure equipment and methods for relay devices" was invented by Brian Alexander Martin (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Anders Berggren (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications device acting as a relay device is configured to communicate with communications devices operating with a mobile communications network and infrastructure equipment. The relay device comprises transmitter circuitry, receiver circuitry and controlle...