ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,520, issued on June 30, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Duplicated packet transmission method and apparatus thereof" was invented by Chia-Hsiang Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ying-You Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Cheng-En Hsieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Duplicated packet transmission methods are provided. The duplicated packet transmission method may include the following steps. A sender may determine whether to pad at least one duplicated packet into a multi-user physical-protocol-data-unit (MU-PPDU) based on at least one condition. Then, the sender may transmit the MU-PPDU with th...