ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,748, issued on May 12, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Software framework and development platform for Wi-Fi chipsets" was invented by Qiang Wang (Freemont, Calif.), Marianna Carrera (San Jose, Calif.), Kan Hu (Shanghai), Haibo Chen (Shanghai) and Ambroise Popper (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless network device comprises a wireless signal driver, an application-driver framework that includes a bidirectional interface and an application interface. The application-driver framework is configured for application-agnostic and driver-agnostic communication. The bidirectional interface communicatively coupl...