ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,048, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Techniques for robust preamble generation for scalable packets in long range wireless network" was invented by Fabrice Christophe Olivier Portier (Thorigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a circuit includes a preamble generator to generate a preamble having a first field and a second field, the first field having a first sequence that is repeated a plurality of times, a length of the first sequence and a number of the plurality of times based at least in part on a range between a transmitter and a receiver."

The patent was filed o...