US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for supporting wideband multiple bandwidth transmission protocols" (Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,447, issued on Oct. 7, 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 (North Caldwell, 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...