ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,205, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Repeater" was invented by Daniel Paz (Atlit, Israel) and Michael Levitsky (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater may receive control information via a user equipment (UE) entity of the repeater, the control information associated with operation of a wideband entity and a narrowband entity of the repeater. The repeater may receive synchronization information via the narrowband entity, the synchronization information associated with synchronization...