Tech firm earns two patents

SARASOTA — xG Technology, a firm that has spent more than a decade on a mission to provide an inexpensive system for Internet-based cell phone calls, has been awarded two new patents.

The Sarasota-based company now holds 40 U.S. patents, with 24 more pending, according to a release. The latest patents, for technology over what's called Self-Organizing Networks, will allow xG to bring down the costs of deploying and operating wireless networks, the release states.

The inventions will also enable network infrastructure, the base station of a mobile system, to become fully mobile. The company says that's ideal for “situations encountered by public safety, homeland security, and military entities during disaster response and recovery operations, like those faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.