ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,223, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Harmonic channel detection and prevention" was invented by Yongchang Guo (Beijing), Xuguang Jia (Beijing) and Qiang Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for harmonic channel detection is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a first AP working on a first channel, a beacon frame transmitted by a second AP and parsing the beacon frame to obtain information of a second channel indicated in the beacon frame. The method further comprises determining a plurality of candidate harmonic channels and validatin...