ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,320, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Taiwan).

"Channelization of 60GHz band for next-generation WLAN" was invented by Shengquan Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Jianhan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Edward Pare Jr. (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques pertaining to designs of channelization of the 60 GHz band for next-generation wireless local area networks (WLANs) are described. A first apparatus communicates in a 60 GHz band wirelessly with a second apparatus by communicating with a channelization design of the 60 GHz band having a channel center frequency being equal to (a channel starting freque...