US Patent Issued to Intellectual Ventures I on July 14 for "Symmetric transmit opportunity (TXOP) truncation" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,628, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intellectual Ventures I LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Symmetric transmit opportunity (TXOP) truncation" was invented by Menzo Wentink (Ultrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile terminal configured to send and receive communications to and from a network device. Send a first control message requesting to send uplink data. Receive, from the network device, a second control message indicating a transmission opportunity for the mobile terminal to send the uplink data to the network device, wherein the transmission opportunity comprises a transmission duration over frequency resources...