ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,588, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Low latency wireless communication" was invented by Yoel Boger (Shoham, Israel), Oren Shani (Saratoga, Calif.), Jerome C. Tu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sungho Yun (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for low-latency point-to-point communication between electronic devices. In one or more implementations, low latency can be achieved by including data in transmission units, in order of priority up to a maximum duration for the transmission unit. In an example in which the communication occurs over a WiFi c...