ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,659, issued on June 23, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Wireless relay system, and wireless relay method" was invented by Yu Ono (Musashino, Japan), Tatsuya Nakatani (Musashino, Japan) and Toshifumi Miyagi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless relay system includes a first software radio device that performs radio communication with a radio control device and a second software radio device that performs radio communication with a radio terminal. The first software radio device captures, as iq data, a radio signal received from the radio control device, transfers the captured iq data to the second software rad...