ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,684, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"High efficiency signaling" was invented by Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.), Maarten Menzo Wentink (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Alireza Raissinia (Monte Sereno, Calif.), Lochan Verma (Danville, Calif.) and Padmanabhan Venkataraman Karthic (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for high efficiency (HE) beacons. HE supported access points (APs) and s...