ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,328, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NEWRACOM Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) format for reducing preamble overhead of preemption PPDUs" was invented by Heejung Yu (Daejeon, South Korea), Joonsoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Si-Chan Noh (Seoul, South Korea) and Il-Gu Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is method performed by a wireless device to allow preemption in a wireless network. The method includes wirelessly transmitting a first preemption physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes a complete preamble followed by one or more subsequent preemption PPDUs...