ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,696, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Tone plan for wireless communication" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego) and Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems that support communicating using orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) according to a tone plan that supports 20 MHz subchannel puncturing within a wireless channel. In some aspects, a non-legacy tone plan may define a set of tones for a resource unit (RU) such that the RU does not overlap a 20 MHz subchannel boundary of the wireless channe...