US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 29 for "Physical (PHY) layer control for wireless local area network (WLAN) communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,260, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Physical (PHY) layer control for wireless local area network (WLAN) communication" was invented by Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.) and Bin Tian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for physical (PHY) layer control signaling. A first physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) may precede a second PPDU. The first PPDU may be referred to as a PHY control PPDU and may include a physical layer control sign...