US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 10 for "60 GHz operating mode for wireless local area networks (WLANs)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,229, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"60 GHz operating mode for wireless local area networks (WLANs)" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (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 for increasing carrier frequencies for wireless communications in wireless local area networks (WLANs). Some implementations more specifically relate to BSS discovery and association techniques that support wireless communications on carrier frequencies above 7 GHz. In some aspects, an access point (...