US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on March 18 for "Basic service set (BSS) management in a wireless local area network (WLAN)" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,850, issued on March 18, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Basic service set (BSS) management in a wireless local area network (WLAN)" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Yuan Sheng Jin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Xiaofei Wang (Cedar Grove, N.J.) and Robert L. Olesen (Huntington, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) may determine that a basic service set (BSS) color of an overlapping BSS (OBSS) associated with a neighboring AP is a same color as a BSS color of the AP. A BSS color change announcement message may be generated having BSS color info...