US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 20 for "Enhancing wireless communications with a dedicated-scan radio" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,248, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enhancing wireless communications with a dedicated-scan radio" was invented by Ning Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Ahmed Ibrahim ElArabawy (San Diego) and Kai Shi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for using a dedicated-scan radio to improve scanning and other radio operations performed during wireless communications. The techniques include configuring a dedicated-scan radio to collect and cache scan results without interfering with ongoing wireless communication tasks performed using primary radios. Based on the scan result...