ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,473, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus used in WLAN networks" was invented by Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France) and Thomas Kenney (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application provides a method, comprising: generating identifying information at an access point (AP), the identifying information including information relating to an energy detection (ED) threshold to be used for a channel in a wireless network; and broadcasting the identifying information via the channel."
The patent was filed on April 19, 2021, under Application No. 17/234,740.
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