ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,438, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"PPDU transmission method and related apparatus" was invented by Jian Yu (Shenzhen, China), Genadiy Tsodik (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Shimon Shilo (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) transmission method and a related apparatus. The method includes: generating a PPDU, where the PPDU includes a universal signal field (U-SIG), and the U-SIG includes a subfield indicating that the PPDU is a null data packet (NDP); and sending the PPDU. In this wa...