ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,546, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods, systems and devices for varying wireless transmit power based on path loss information" was invented by Xianmin Wang (Westfield, N.J.), Hui Luo (Marlboro, N.J.) and Hongwei Kong (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include at a first station in a wireless network, receiving path loss (PL) transmissions from at least a second station, dynamically changing power for transmissions from the first station to the second station based on the received PL information, determining PL values for transmissions received at t...