ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,327, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for efficient addressing and power savings in wireless communications" was invented by Mohammed Sammour (Alrabieh-Amman, Jordan), Sudheer A. Grandhi (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Arty Chandra (Roslyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless station comprises a receiver that is configured to receive a frame from an access point (AP). The frame comprises a physical layer header. The physical layer header includes an indication of a color associated with the AP. A processor in the STA is configured to enter a power save ...