ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,190, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for wireless communication based on enhanced null data packet announcement" was invented by Eunsung Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Myeongjin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Wookbong Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Chulho Chung (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jonghun Han (Gwacheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a first device communicating with at least one second device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system includes the first device generating a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame and transm...