ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,180, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method of communicating Quality of Service (QoS) information" was invented by Necati Canpolat (Beaverton, Ore.), Dave Cavalcanti (Portland, Ore.), Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France), Ganesh Venkatesan (Hillsboro, Ore.), Dmitry Akhmetov (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Dibakar Das (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, an apparatus may be configured to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to generate, process and/or communicate one or more frames and/or messages based on a Quality of Service (QoS) index value to indicate...