ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,889, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Power control for repeaters and multi-path communication" was invented by Lung-Sheng Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chia-Hao Yu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Fang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Kuan-Yuan Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of power control can include receiving at a UE a first downlink reference signal from a repeater and a second downlink reference signal from a base station, the first downlink reference signal corresponding to a first path that is between the UE and the base station and passes the repeater, the ...