US Patent Issued to InteDigital Patent Holdings on Feb. 24 for "WIFI channel selection and subchannel selective transmissions" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,585, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to InteDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"WIFI channel selection and subchannel selective transmissions" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for a station (STA) to access a channel are disclosed. In one method, the STA sends to an access point (AP) feedback regarding a desired channel of the STA that is a secondary channel of the AP available to monitor. The STA receives from the AP, a message including a bitmap indicating an assigned channel of the STA that is a secondary channel of...