ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,037, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wireless transmissions using distributed tones" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego) and Bin Tian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless communication. An example apparatus selects a first resource unit (RU) of a plurality of RUs for transmitting a physical (PHY) layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) over a wireless medium. The first RU may include a set of contiguous tones occupying a first frequency bandwidth. The plurality of RUs may collectively span a second frequenc...