ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,017, issued on July 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Trigger frame for uplink resource allocation" was invented by Jeongki Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq (Herndon, Va.) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) may communicate with one or more stations (STAs). The AP may send a trigger frame to one or more STAs for allocating uplink resources for a corresponding STA. The trigger frame may indicate a presence or absence of a subsequent uplink resource allocation. Uplink resource allocations for multiple uplink transmissions of one o...