ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,874, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced resource allocation for wireless communications" was invented by Xiaogang Chen (Portland, Ore.), Daniel Bravo (Portland, Ore.), Laurent Cariou (Portland, Ore.), Po-Kai Huang (Portland, Ore.), Feng Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qinghua Li (San Ramon, Calif.) and Robert Stacey (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to allocating non-continuous resource units (RUs). A device may determine a non-continuous RU allocation for one or more devices in a 80 MHz bandwidth including four 20 M...