ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,448, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-user duplicate transmission" was invented by Jialing Li Chen (San Diego), Kanke Wu (San Diego) 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 increasing the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to tone mapping techniques and packet designs that support duplicate (or "DUP mode") transmissions to multiple users. In some implementations, an access point (AP) may transmit a P...