ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,041, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Smart repeater device" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

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 device may receive a detection configuration that is associated with autonomous detection of a transmission that is associated with a user equipment (UE). The repeater device may detect the transmission based at least in part on the detection configuration. The repeater device may tran...