ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,338, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold adaptation method" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Pengfei Xia (San Diego), Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Monisha Ghosh (Chicago), Robert Olesen (Huntington, N.Y.), Nirav B Shah (San Diego) and Frank LaSita (Long Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described herein for adapting clear channel assessment (CCA) thresholds with or without Transmit Power Control (TPC) are disclosed. An IEEE 802.11 station (STA) may dynamica...