ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,888, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Wireless communications through wireless relay device" 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 device includes a controller configured to select a wireless relay device from multiple wireless relay devices for data exchanges between the wireless device and a second wireless device and a wireless transceiver configured to exchange da...