ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,470, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Wireless access point apparatus and channel switching method thereof" was invented by Chung-Yao Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chuan-Hu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless access point apparatus includes a mixer, an analog low-pass filter (ALPF), an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a radar detector and a controller. The mixer is configured to mix a wireless signal and a carrier signal for performing frequency conversion on the wireless signal. The ALPF with a passband is configured to perform filtering on the wireless signa...