US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 19 for "Closed loop carrier sense multiple access with multiuser request to send and clear to send handshaking in an advanced wireless network" (Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,039, issued on May 19, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Closed loop carrier sense multiple access with multiuser request to send and clear to send handshaking in an advanced wireless network" was invented by Ralf Bendlin (Cedar Park, Texas), Thomas Novlan (Jonestown, Texas), Arunabha Ghosh (Austin, Texas) and Abdulrauf Hafeez (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closed loop carrier sense multiple access multiuser request to send and clear to send handshaking system is provided to efficiently allocate licensed and unlicensed spectrum for a plurality of mobile devices and across different base stations...