ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,333, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OptimERA Holdings Inc. (Dutch Harbor, Alaska).

"Communications devices, communications systems and associated communications methods" was invented by Jester JP Purtteman (Olympia, Wash.) and Emmett J. Fitch (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communications devices, communications systems and associated communications methods are described. According to one aspect, a communications device includes processing circuitry configured to access a value indicative of a signal to noise ratio of a communications signal received at a second communications device of a communications system aft...