ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,517, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Enabling enhanced subchannel selective transmission in WLAN systems" was invented by Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Zinan Lin (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Mahmoud Saad (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for Subchannel Selective Transmission (SST) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) are provided herein. A station (STA) may receive a trigger frame from an access point (AP). The trigger frame may indicate a range of association identifiers (AIDs) and/or subchannel information. The subchannel information may identif...