ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,513, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data acknowledgment method and apparatus" was invented by Guogang Huang (Shenzhen, China), Yunbo Li (Shenzhen, China), Yuchen Guo (Shenzhen, China), Dandan Liang (Shenzhen, China) and Jian Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A station-side data acknowledgment apparatus includes a transmitter configured to send a data frame to access points (APs), and to send an acknowledgment request, a processor configured to control the transmitter to send the acknowledgment request after a duration from an end of sending the data frame to the A...