ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,839, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Detailed signaling designs for distributed-tone resource unit transmission" 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 detailed signaling designs for distributed-tone resource unit (dRU) transmission in wireless communications are described. An apparatus generates a frame with indications of a resource unit (RU) type and a dRU distribution bandwidth. The apparatus then transmits the frame to another apparatus. The RU...