ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,884, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Global cyclic shift delays for distributed transmissions" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.) and Qifan Chen (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for increasing the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to short training field (STF) designs and signaling that support distributed transmissions. A transmitting device that transmits...