ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,957, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interpretation of reserved states in wireless packets" was invented by Sameer Vermani (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jialing Li Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for interpreting reserved bits and values associated with different releases of a wireless communication protocol. In some implementations, a wireless communication device may determine whether to terminate or continue reception of a physical layer protocol convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (P...