ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,919, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Extended long range wireless packet design" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.), Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee (Tull en 't Waal, Netherlands), Alecsander Petru Eitan (Haifa, Israel), Sameer Vermani (San Diego) and Vincent Knowles Jones (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for extended long range wireless packet design. Some aspects more specifically relate to increasing a data rate, a coverage range, or both for extended long range...