ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,602, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Frame forwarding for range extension in a wireless network" was invented by Liwen Chu (San Ramon, Calif.), Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kiseon Ryu (San Diego) and Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method and apparatus for wireless communications are disclosed. In an embodiment, a wireless relay device includes a wireless transceiver configured to receive, from a first wireless device, communications data, and a controller configured to determine whether to forward the received communications data to a second wireless d...