ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,161, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AIRTIES BELGIUM SPRL (Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium).

"Method for testing a wireless link of a Wi-Fi node, and circuit performing the method" was invented by Koen Van Oost (Borsbeek, Belgium) and Karel Van Doorselaer (Edegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for monitoring a wireless link of a wireless node of a CPE device during operation of the CPE device, comprises the steps of taking samples of one or several of the following parameters in a defined time interval: Received Signal Strength (RSSI), modulation rate (Physical Layer Rate) and/or the number of spatial streams use...