ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,204, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Asynchronous bidirectional communications in cell free networks" was invented by Roozbeh Mohammadian (Oshawa, Canada), Shahram Shahbazpanahi (Whitby, Canada), Zahra Pourgharehkhan (Nepean, Canada), Majid Bavand (Ottawa), Gary Boudreau (Kanata, Canada), Israfil Bahceci (Kanata, Canada) and Ali Afana (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to minimize a total transmit power in a bidirectional asynchronous cell free network where at least two transceivers, TRs, exchange their information using a number of amplify and forward, AF,...