ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,548, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Long training field (LTF) in distributed transmission" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Qifan Chen (Newark, Calif.) 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 the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to LTF designs that support distributed transmissions. In some aspects, a transmitting device may obtain a sequence of values rep...