ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,385, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Repeater handover decision based on end-to-end link quality" was invented by Aria Hasanzadezonuzy (Somerville, N.J.), Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

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 network-controlled repeater (NCR) node may obtain measurements related to backhaul links between the NCR node and network nodes that forward radio frequency (RF) signals through the NCR node and to an access link between the NC...