US Patent Issued to Intel on May 12 for "Indicating channel puncturing in a PHY header" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,397, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Indicating channel puncturing in a PHY header" was invented by Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for indicating channel puncturing in a physical (PHY) header of a PPDU are disclosed. Apparatuses of a non-access point (AP) station (STA) or of an AP are disclosed, where the apparatuses comprise processing circuitry configured to: decode a first portion of a physical (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), the first portion of the PPDU comprising a bandwidth subfield and a puncturing pattern s...