ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,136, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Bandwidth selection in Wi-Fi 7 access points" was invented by Vijayakumar V (Ulsoor, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threshold usage of the primary channel transmission bandwidth is detected exceeding a predetermined value, triggering a second mode. Responsive to reaching the threshold usage detection, a puncturing pattern is activated to transmit data frames over the remaining channel transmission bandwidth while continuing to transmit management frames over the primary channel transmission bandwidth. Responsive to reaching the threshold usage detecti...