ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,377, issued on June 10, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Packet formats for vehicular networks" was invented by Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Liwen Chu (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device is configured to process packets that conform to a first physical layer (PHY) protocol for wireless vehicular communications and packets that conform to a second PHY protocol for wireless vehicular communications. The first communication device determines that one or more second communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets th...