ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,775, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus of scanning in wireless local area network system" was invented by Jae Seung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Ho Cheong (Seoul, South Korea), Je Hun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ja Beom Gu (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Woo Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sok Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system is provided. The scanning method includes transmitting, by a station, a probe request frame and receiving, by the statio...