PatentBrief

Inventor

John D. O'Sullivan

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1996

Associated with

Years active

1996

Total patents

1

Most recent

1996

Frequent collaborator

Terence M. P. Percival

Domains

wirelessnetworkingtelecommunicationsradiointernet-infrastructure

Activity by decade

1990s
1

Patents

1

US 5487069·1996·Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization CSIRO

The WiFi Patent — How an Australian Government Lab Made Wireless Work Indoors

John O'Sullivan and the CSIRO team's 1996 patent describes the multipath radio transmission technique that makes WiFi work in buildings — invented while trying to detect exploding mini black holes, it became the foundation of wireless networking.