ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,447, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Packet format for transmission of data packets" was invented by Miguel Lopez (Solna, Sweden), Sebastian Max (Colonge, Germany), Leif Wilhelmsson (Lund, Sweden) and Dennis Sundman (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet format is disclosed for transmission of data packets over a communication channel, wherein transmission of one of the data packets utilizes a frequency bandwidth, and wherein the frequency bandwidth is dynamically variable between data packets. The packet format defines a frequency bandwidth detection fiel...