ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,402, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ultra-reliable MU-PPDU transmission with network coding" was invented by Minyoung Park (San Ramon, Calif.), Wei Mao (San Jose, Calif.), Dave A. Cavalcanti (Portland, Ore.), Javier Perez-Ramirez (North Plains, Ore.) and Hosein Nikopour (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-access point (AP) station (STA) may be configured for receipt of a multi-user physical layer protocol data unit (MU-PPDU) with network coding. The STA may decode at least portions of a MU-PPDU received from an access point (AP). The MU-PPDU may comprise a first data portion ad...