ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,420, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beamforming techniques in Wi-Fi frequency bands" was invented by Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Yanjun Sun (San Diego), Lin Yang (San Diego), Gaurang Naik (San Diego), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego) and Abdel Karim Ajami (Lakeside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may communicate signaling with a second wireless device based on establishing a radio frequency link, the signaling indicating the first wireles...