ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,307, issued on June 2, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Preamble designs for next-generation WLAN in 60GHz band" 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 preamble designs for next-generation wireless local area networks (WLANs) in 60 GHz band are described. A first apparatus communicates in a 60 GHz band wirelessly with a second apparatus by transmitting a first physical-layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to the second apparatus and/or receiving a second PPDU from the second app...