ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,982, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reconfigured trigger-frame response" was invented by Jarkko L. Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Leonid Epstein (Netanya, Israel), Zhou Lan (San Jose, Calif.), Anuj Batra (Redwood City, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.) and Qi Wang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device (such as an access point) that receives a modified response frame is described. During operation, an interface circuit in the electronic device may provide a trigger frame addressed to a...