ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,320, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Sounding schemes using distributed tones in wireless communications" was invented by Jianhan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Shengquan Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Yongho Seok (San Jose, Calif.), Kai Ying Lu (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Edward Pare Jr. (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples pertaining to sounding schemes using distributed tones in wireless communications are described. A stations (STA) receives a sounding signal with an extremely-high-throughput (EHT) null data packet (NDP). The STA then transmits a feedback regarding the...