ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,738, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Extending a non-serving cell by a repeater" was invented by Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A repeater may receive a control signal from a network device indicating that the repeater is to forward one or more messages associated with the non-serving cell of the repeater for a UE. The network device may output the control signal for the repeater. The network device may be a serving cell of the repeat...