ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,304, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Long range beacon for power difference between 5 and 6 GHz" was invented by Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France), Xiaogang Chen (Portland, Ore.), Qinghua Li (San Ramon, Calif.), Feng Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Thomas J. Kenney (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to long range beacon. A device may determine one or more co-located frequency bands with a 6 GHz access point (AP). The device may generate a reduced neighbor report (RNR), wherein the RNR comprises information associated wi...