ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,390, issued on May 13, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Multi-band operation for wireless LAN systems" was invented by Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Monisha Ghosh (Chicago), 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: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are provided to implement transmission scheduling. A multiband device may send a request via a first frequency band. The request may include a multiband Request to Send (MRTS) transmission. The request may be associated with a second frequency band/or a beamforming training schedule. Th...