ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,251, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Channel scan in multiple service periods" was invented by Ahmed Ragab Elsherif (San Jose, Calif.), Venkatesh Chitturi (Hyderabad, India), Vamsi Sanka (Hyderabad, India) and Sudhanshu Singh (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may scan a first channel for access points during a first non-extended-personal-area-network (non-XPAN) service period. The wireless communication device may scan the first channel in one or more addi...