ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,367, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System, method and apparatus for adaptively controlling transmit power based on energy detection" was invented by Hendricus De Ruijter (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes: detecting, in a receiver of a wireless device, an energy of a first wireless channel; determining whether the detected energy is within a range between a first threshold and a second threshold; and in response to determining that the detected energy is within the range, transmitting, from a transmitter of the wireless device, a first radi...