ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,143, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributed resource unit signaling" was invented by Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.), Lin Yang (San Diego), Yanjun Sun (San Diego) and Bin Tian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for increasing the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to signaling in a trigger frame to support distributed transmissions via distributed resource units (dRUs). In some implementations, an acces...