ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,269, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced feedback for secure mode wireless communications" was invented by Qinghua Li (San Ramon, Calif.), Feng Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jonathan Segev (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaogang Chen (Portland, Ore.), Assaf Gurevitz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Gadi Shor (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Robert Stacey (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced feedback for secure mode wireless communications. A device may send a first null data packet (NDP) to a second device, and identify a second NDP ...