US Patent Issued to NXP USA on May 26 for "Primary and non-primary subchannels in a basic service set of a wireless network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,862, issued on May 26, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Primary and non-primary subchannels in a basic service set of a wireless network" was invented by Liwen Chu (San Ramon, Calif.), Kiseon Ryu (San Diego), Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method and apparatus for wireless communications are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes selecting backoff 20 MHz channels of an operating channel bandwidth (BW) of a Basic Service Set (BSS), and announcing to a second wireless device the operating channel BW of the BSS for use in communicating ...