ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,962, issued on May 20, was assigned to Senscomm Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Method and apparatus for configuring puncturing patterns in wireless communication system" was invented by Yujin Noh (Irvine, Calif.), Seung Hyeok Ahn (Irvine, Calif.), Seung Ho Choo (Suzhou, China), Young-Hwan Kang (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea), Jungchul Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Tan Joong Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a transmitter in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is provided. The method comprises: setting a second parameter in a second frame based on a first puncturing pattern indicated...