ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,837, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Method and apparatus for simultaneous multi-user and direct link transmission with reduced interferences" was invented by Francois Thoumy (Vignoc, France), Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France), Mickael Lorgeoux (Rennes, France) and Brice Le Houerou (Acigne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a transmission system where DiL and MU UL scheme are triggered by the AP simultaneously. According to a first aspect of the invention, the data frame sent in DiL mode by a station in response to an AP triggering frame are emitted according to the synchroniz...