ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,631, issued on May 20, was assigned to CSC Holdings LLC (Bethpage, N.Y.).

"Adaptive physical layer interface control for a wireless local area network" was invented by Janne Linkola (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless access point (WAP) supports one or more physical layer (PHY) operational parameters which can be restricted from use to lessen congestion within a wireless network (WN). The WAP periodically transmits a management frame to enable one or more communication devices to establish and/or maintain communication with the WAP. The wireless network can restrict one or more of the one or more PHY operational...