Palmira Wireless AG

Palmira Wireless AG is the owner of a global portfolio of patents covering technology essential for implementation of the IEEE 802.11n (Wi-Fi 4) and 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) standards. The IEEE 802.11 standard provides the basis for wireless network products and is the world's most widely used wireless computer networking standard. Wi-Fi 4 and Wi-Fi 5 are used in products covering a wide range of uses – from mobile phones to music devices, from refrigerators to tablets, from cars to industrial machines.

The Palmira patent portfolio was developed by Toshiba Corporation of Japan. Toshiba's ground-breaking R&D work led to significant and essential contributions to the 802.11n and 802.11ac standards. For example, the portfolio includes important contributions in the areas of physical frame formatting, MIMO pilot signal patterns, efficient block acknowledgements, encryption scheme selection, beamf...