US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on July 1 for "Padding and backoff operations when transmitting via multiple frequency segments in a WLAN" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,345, issued on July 1, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Padding and backoff operations when transmitting via multiple frequency segments in a WLAN" was invented by Liwen Chu (San Ramon, Calif.), Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Hui-Ling Lou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yan Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device performs a first backoff operation with a first backoff counter to determine when to transmit a first packet in a first frequency, and performs a second backoff operation with a second backoff counter to determine when to transmit a second packet ...