ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,073, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Power control method in wireless local area network and related apparatus" was invented by Wei Ruan (Shanghai), Jian Yu (Shenzhen, China), Cong Chen (Shanghai), Chenchen Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a power control method in a wireless local area network, a beamformer sends a null data packet (NDP) via a plurality of spatial streams to beamformees. After receiving the NDP, a beamformee determines a first parameter for power control based on RSSIs of a plurality of receive antennas when the...