ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,661, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus used in WLAN networks" was invented by Xiaogang Chen (Portland, Ore.), Thomas Kenney (Portland, Ore.) and Qinghua Li (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application provides a method, including: generating a Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising both information for one or more first-generation stations (R1 STAs) and information for one or more second-generation stations (R2 STAs); and transmitting the PPDU to the one or more R1 STAs and the one or more R2 STAs, wherein a preamble portion of the PPDU ...