ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,596, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System and method for managing growing beacon size in a wireless network" was invented by Ravi Gidvani (Fremont, Calif.), Shailender Karmuchi (Fremont, Calif.), Ashok Ranganath (Los Gatos, Calif.), Srinivas Kandala (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Wookbong Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Michail Koundourakis (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for managing beacon size. In some embodiments, the method includes: transmitting, by an Access Point Station (AP STA) a first beacon; transmitting, by the AP STA, a second beacon in...