US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Feb. 3 for "Physical layer protocol data unit directional transmission" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,212, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Physical layer protocol data unit directional transmission" was invented by B Hari Ram (Chennai, India), Vijay Ahirwar (Pune, India), Sri Varsha Rottela (Visakhapatnam, India), Nilesh N. Khude (Pune, India) and Sudhir Srinivasa (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) device that serves a wireless local area network (WLAN) determines that a coverage area of the AP device is partitioned into a plurality of sectors, the coverage area corresponding to the WLAN. The AP device determines that a first transmission is occurring within a fi...