ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,238, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus used in WLANs" was invented by Xiaogang Chen (Portland, Ore.), Thomas Kenney (Portland, Ore.), Qinghua Li (San Ramon, Calif.), Hao Song (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Robert Stacey (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to an apparatus and method used in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The apparatus includes: a wireless interface; and processor circuitry coupled to the wireless interface and configured to: generate a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) with a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding scheme; and prov...