ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,382, issued on May 13, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and apparatus for supporting wideband multiple bandwidth transmission protocols" was invented by Bhaskar M. Anepu (Allentown, Pa.), Sudheer A. Grandhi (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Xiaofei Wang (Cedar Grove, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced protocols and devices may be used to alleviate loss of spectrum efficiency in wideband transmission. The protocols may implement a wideband transmission opportunity (TXOP) truncation where one or more of the channels involved in communication over the wideband are released. In one scenario, ...