ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,371, issued on March 18, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Distributed resource unit tone plan optimization for PAPR reduction" was invented by Shengquan Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Jianhan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Edward Pare Jr. (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various schemes pertaining to optimization of distributed resource unit (RU) tone plans for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction in 6 GHz low-power indoor (LPI) systems are described. An apparatus distributes a plurality of subcarriers of a RU over a bandwidth to generate a distributed-tone RU (dRU) or a distributed-tone ...