ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,697, issued on June 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Frame-based channel access technique" was invented by Ahmad Reza Hedayat (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Lochan Verma (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device (such as an access point) that provides a frame is described. This electronic device includes: an antenna node communicatively coupled to an antenna; and an interface circuit, communicatively coupled to the antenna node, that communicates with a second electronic device. During operation, the interface circuit may provide, addressed to the second electronic device, the frame that includes...