ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,239, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system and method of communication according to an automated frequency coordination (AFC) allocation scheme" was invented by Jonathan Segev (Tel Mond, Israel), Qinghua Li (San Ramon, Calif.), Hassan Yaghoobi (San Jose, Calif.), Emily H. Qi (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and Feng Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, an AP device, which includes a co-located AP set of a plurality of APs, may be configured to configure the plurality of APs to communicate over a respective plurality of wireless communication channels in a 6 GHz fr...