US Patent Issued to Intel on June 9 for "Mechanism to enable aligned channel access" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,699, issued on June 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Mechanism to enable aligned channel access" was invented by Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France), Dibakar Das (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Dmitry Akhmetov (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to aligned channel access. A device may perform a first backoff countdown on a first link associated with a first station device (STA) of the device, wherein the device is a multi-link device (MLD). The device may detect a second backoff countdown associated with a second STA of the MLD after the first backoff...