US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "Enhanced channel hopping wireless protocol to address short-term fading" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,059, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enhanced channel hopping wireless protocol to address short-term fading" was invented by Krishna Kant Chintalapudi (Redmond, Wash.), Joseph Michael Schaefer (Carnation, Wash.), Gopala Sri Hari Narlanka (Bellevue, Wash.) and Hao Yin (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Short-term fading can be addressed through channel hopping mechanisms in the time scale of few milliseconds. Existing do not address short-term fading. For example, Wi-Fi channel change mechanisms take several 100 ms to perform a channel change. Short-term fading lasts aroun...