US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 18 for "Method and apparatus for simultaneous multi-user and direct link transmissions with reduced interferences" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,463, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for simultaneous multi-user and direct link transmissions with reduced interferences" was invented by Mickael Lorgeoux (Rennes, France), Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France), Francois Thoumy (Le Tertre, France) and Brice Le Houerou (Acigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A triggering frame in a wireless network grants a medium to an AP for a TXOP. The frame defines RUs and allocates Uplink RUs to UL transmissions for an UL duration and Direct Link RUs to P2P transmissions. All the P2P exchanges are nested within the UL duration, hence avoiding an ack...