ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,876, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Channel sounding method and apparatus" was invented by Jian Yu (Shenzhen, China), Yuchen Guo (Shenzhen, China), Xun Yang (Shenzhen, China), Dandan Liang (Shenzhen, China), Yunbo Li (Shenzhen, China) and Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel sounding method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes a first access point device sending a sounding request frame to a second access point device, the sounding request frame requesting the second access point device perform channel sounding, the sounding request frame ...