ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,996, issued on June 16, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Methods and devices for selective subchannel transmission operation in wireless local area networks" was invented by Lei Huang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide methods and devices for selective subchannel transmission (SST) operation in a WLAN. The method carried out by an access point (AP) comprises: setting, by the AP, a first target wake time (TWT) element of a TWT response to indicate at least one guaranteed non-punctured 20 MHz channel in a subchannel provided to a station ...