US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on June 17 for "Method of selecting access point and related communication device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,991, issued on June 17, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of selecting access point and related communication device" was invented by Po-Han Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Hsun Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Yao Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selecting access point, suitable for a communication device, includes following operations: (a) monitoring a channel of at least one frequency band; (b) calculating a first count that the channel is detected to be in an occupied state; (c) calculating a second count that the channel is detected to have an ambient noise; (d) r...