ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,460, issued on July 21, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Enhanced long range communication schemes in wireless communications" was invented by Jianhan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Shengquan Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Gary A. Anwyl (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 enhanced long range (ELR) communication schemes in wireless communications are described. An apparatus (e.g., a station (STA)) performs an ELR communication by either: (i) transmitting an ELR physical-layer protocol data unit (PPDU); or (ii) receiving the ELR PPDU. The ELR PPD...