ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,210, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method of communication during a synchronized transmit opportunity (S-TxOP)" was invented by Dave Cavalcanti (Portland, Ore.), Dibakar Das (Hillsboro, Ore.), Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France), Javier Perez-Ramirez (North Plains, Ore.) and Dmitry Akhmetov (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, an apparatus may be configured to cause an Access Point (AP) to transmit a frame over a wireless communication channel, the frame including a field according to a first Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) version decodable b...