ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,581, issued on June 24, was assigned to Avalon Technology Solutions LLC (Frisco, Texas).

"Frame exchange method for beamforming" was invented by Heejung Yu (Daejeon, South Korea), Yujin Noh (Irvine, Calif.), Jong-ee Oh (Irvine, Calif.) and Jaeyoung Ryu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by a wireless device functioning as a beamformer station (STA) in a wireless network to perform a sounding procedure. The method includes wirelessly transmitting a null data packet (NDP) announcement frame in a first frequency band, the NDP announcement frame including a sounding dialog token field where bits B0 and B...