ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,866, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method of communicating a millimeterwave (mmWave) physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) over an mmWave wireless communication channel" was invented by Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France) and Thomas J. Kenney (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine an energy state of a 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) channel bandwidth (BW) in a millimeterWave (mmWave) wireless communication frequency band according to an energy detection mechanism; and, based on the energy st...