US Patent Issued to Intel on July 21 for "Access point configured for multi-AP group operations using restricted target wake time (r-TWT) service period (SP)" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,978, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Access point configured for multi-AP group operations using restricted target wake time (r-TWT) service period (SP)" was invented by Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France) and Thomas J. Kenney (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) configured for multi-AP operation within a group of two or more other APs of a multi-AP group including at least a second AP uses restricted target wake time (r-TWT) service periods (SPs) for coordinating communications within the multi-AP group. The AP may be configured to encode a management frame for trans...