ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,847, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Scalable packet communication in a long range wireless system" was invented by Fabrice Christophe Olivier Portier (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a transmitter includes: a circuit to generate a packet having a preamble, a header, and a data portion, where the preamble and the header are dynamically adaptable based at least in part on a range between the transmitter and a receiver; and a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit coupled to the circuit to process and transmit the packet."

The patent was filed on Jun...