ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,653, issued on July 7, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Adaptation of MIMO mode in MMW WLAN systems" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Diego), Alphan Sahin (Westbury, N.Y.) and Rui Yang (Greenlawn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for adaptation of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode in mmW Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) systems. A first station (STA) may receive a mode change request from a second STA. The mode change request may indi...