ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,970, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributed resource unit transmission" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego) and Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.).

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 physical layer (PHY) convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) designs that support distributed transmission. In some implementations, a PPDU may be generated b...