ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,912, issued on July 21, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Access point (AP) angle of arrival (AoA) interference reduction" was invented by Saju Palayur (Poway, Calif.) and Salvador Iranzo Molinero (Betera, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of an example, an access point (AP) may include a processing device and a transceiver. The processing device may be configured to detect an incumbent transmission from an incumbent device. The processing device may be configured to compute an angle of arrival between the AP and the incumbent transmission from the incumbent device. The processing device ma...