ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,157, issued on April 8, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for multi-AP transmission with uniform coverage" was invented by Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Xiaofei Wang (Cedar Grove, N.J.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Siego, Calif.), Rui Yang (Greenlawn, N.Y.), Joseph S. Levy (Merrick, N.Y.) and Frank La Sita (Setauket, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for multiple access point (AP) transmission is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a repetition beacon from each of a plurality of APs, each received repetition beacon comprising a common inform...