ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,750, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Error protection of data unit service field in wireless local area network transmissions" was invented by Yan Xin (Ottawa), Junghoon Suh (Ottawa), Osama Aboul-Magd (Ottawa), Sheng Sun (Ottawa) and Kwok Shum Au (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transmitting or receiving an RF signal that carries a data unit, the data unit comprising a DATA field that includes a SERVICE field, the SERVICE field including a scrambler initialization field and a sequence of remaining bits scrambled based on a set of scrambler sequence initialization bits included ...