ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,857, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method of communicating flow-group quality of service (QoS) information" was invented by Necati Canpolat (Beaverton, Ore.), Alexandre Saso Stojanovski (Paris), Javier Perez-Ramirez (North Plains, Ore.), Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France) and Dibakar Das (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, a wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to set flow-group Quality of Service (QoS) information corresponding to a Medium Access Control (MAC) Service Data Unit (MSDU) in a traffic flow belonging to a flow group i...