US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 8 for "Range extender (RE) placement using fine timing measurement (FTM) procedure in a wireless local area network (WLAN)" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,226, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Range extender (RE) placement using fine timing measurement (FTM) procedure in a wireless local area network (WLAN)" was invented by Prakash Chennichetty (Chennai, India), Manoj Sekar (Pondicherry, India), Thanigaivel Nagendran (Chennai, India), Subramanian Anantharaman (Bangalore, India) and Sreekanth Natarajan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, apparatuses and systems for placing a range extender (RE) based on a distance between the RE and an access point (AP). An RE may determine a distance between the RE and AP based on...