ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,622, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-user request-to-send and clear-to-send framework" was invented by Zhou Lan (San Jose, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.), Anuj Batra (Redwood City, Calif.), Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.), Akira Yamanaka (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Oren Shani (Saratoga, Calif.), Jarkko L. Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tianyu Wu (Fremont, Calif.), Jinjing Jiang (San Jose, Calif.) and Qi Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods for transmitting and receiving multi-user request-to-send and clear-to-send frames in a wireless ...