US Patent Issued to Calix on Oct. 21 for "Physical layer rate estimates in wireless communication systems" (Texas, California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,756, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Calix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Physical layer rate estimates in wireless communication systems" was invented by Harold A. Roberts (Excelsior, Minn.), Daniel J. Sills (Moss Beach, Calif.) and Eric I. Leal (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless system includes memory configured to store information of physical layer rates associated with power levels between a client device and respective access points. The power levels comprise information of amounts of power in signals received by the client device from the respective access points. The system includes one or more process...