ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,340, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission for signaling fields in a physical layer protocol data unit" was invented by Mengshi Hu (Shenzhen, China), Jian Yu (Shenzhen, China), Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China) and Dandan Liang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: generating a signaling field of a PPDU, and sending a signaling field on a first frequency domain segment, where a channel bandwidth for transmitting the PPDU includes at least two frequency domain segments, at least two frequency domain segments include the first frequency domain segmen...