ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,658, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Tone rotation selection" was invented by Ahmed Raafat Hosny Mohamed Fahmy (Valencia, Spain), Salvador Iranzo Molinero (Betera, Spain), Antonio Arregui De La Cruz (Valencia, Spain) and Alejandro Victor Torrijo Gonzalez (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point may include a processing device configured to: identify a puncturing pattern for a channel width of a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) of a transmit signal; compute one or more tone rotation patterns using one or more tone rotation pattern parameters; and select a tone rotatio...