ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,453, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Activity pattern of coverage enhancing devices" was invented by Kun Zhao (Malmo, Sweden), Jose Flordelis (Lund, Sweden), Olof Zander (Sodra Sandby, Sweden), Fredrik Rusek (Eslov, Sweden) and Erik Bengtsson (Eslov, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a first aspect, examples provide a method of operating a first communication node (CN), wherein the first CN is configurable for exchanging, with a second CN on a radio channel, signals via a first propagation path and a second propagation path, wherein exchanging the signals via the first propagation path c...