ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,444, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Discovery channel for unlicensed frequency band" was invented by Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Venkata Ramanan Venkatachalam Jayaraman (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 advertising operating channels that are being operated in an unlicensed frequency band. One or more access points (APs) may transmit discovery information on a dedicated discovery cha...