ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,596, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for protection of multi-user (MU) transmissions" was invented by Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Diego), Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.) and Rui Yang (Greenlawn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for protection of multi-user (MU) transmission are described herein. An apparatus includes a receiver, a transmitter and a processor. The receiver and the processor detect a trigger frame for an uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission. The processor and...