ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,141, issued on June 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Fixed wireless node with frequency synthesizer" was invented by Joseph Thaddeus Lipowski (Norwell, Mass.), Dimitar Stoilov Dimitrov (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jesse Lloyd Rhodes (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high frequency data network access system includes an aggregation node and endpoint nodes that employ an approach to achieve frequency stability without the need for a separate auxiliary radio frequency (RF) signal, such as a GPS signal, which would require its own receiver and antenna. The endpoint and/or subscriber no...