ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,283, issued on June 10, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Control and operation in Wireless Local Area Network" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Frank La Sita (Setauket, N.Y.) and Fengjun Xi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for range extension, basic service set (BSS) color labeling, and multi-user (MU) fragmentation and control in WLANs. A range extension notification/enablement scheme, a clear channel assessment (CCA), a headroom indication, and/or power scaling may be provided for a range ex...