US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 4 for "Link adaptation protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,417, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Link adaptation protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN)" was invented by Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.), Sameer Vermani (San Diego), Lin Yang (San Diego), Jialing Li Chen (San Diego), Dung Ngoc Doan (San Diego) and Bin Tian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for a link adaptation protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one aspect, the link adaptation protocol may be used to select a transmission rate option (...