ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,999, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Relay station, information processing apparatus, and method" was invented by Kenichi Takizawa (Koganei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay station includes a plurality of antennas and a controller. In non-regenerative relay of a first signal, the controller estimates an SINR of the first signal at a reception station after the relay on the basis of a transmit power of the first signal at a transmission station, first propagation characteristics between one or more first antennas set as reception antennas for the first signal and the transmission sta...