ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,016, issued on July 22, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Midamble format for packets in a vehicular communication network" was invented by Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Prashant Sharma (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicular communication network, a communication device generates a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) for transmission in the vehicular communication network. The communication device generates a plurality of PHY data segments of the PPDU, and one or more PHY midambles, each PHY midamble to be transmitted between...