ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,447, issued on May 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network improvements using beacon bursting communication techniques" was invented by Jason Wang (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for providing communications between an access point and one or more stations. Such techniques may involve determining, by the access point, transmission data to be provided to a station in an uplink transmission, determining a transmission time to perform the uplink transmission over a wireless channel, determining a point in time at which to reserve the wireless channel, the point...