ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,933, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributed transmission across 80MHZ" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.) and Qifan Chen (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for extending distributed resource units (dRUs) beyond 80 MHz. Some aspects more specifically relate to supporting enhanced tone distribution mapping schemes and signaling. In some examples, a wireless station may receive, from an access point, scheduling information for a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PDU...