US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 21 for "Scheduled and random access uplink resource unit allocation" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,062, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scheduled and random access uplink resource unit allocation" was invented by Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas), Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for resource unit (RU) allocation for wireless communication are disclosed. These techniques include identifying a first allocation of scheduled access (SA) and random access (RA) RUs for uplink from one or more wireless stations (STAs) to a wireless access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The tech...