ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,944, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Mirrored split passive scanning" was invented by Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.), Alireza Raissinia (Monte Sereno, Calif.), Javier Del Prado Pavon (Los Gatos, Calif.), Shuibing Dai (Cupertino, Calif.), Zhao Li (Shanghai), Vikram Phogat (Fremont, Calif.) and Prasanna Basaralu Subramanya (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for performing passive scanning operations on one or more wireless channels. In some implementations, a wireless communication device configures an off-channel scan time an...