US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Feb. 3 for "Multi-user parallel channel access in WLAN systems" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,165, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Multi-user parallel channel access in WLAN systems" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Monisha Ghosh (Chicago), Nirav B. Shah (San Diego), Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.) and Ronald G. Murias (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are related to multi-user parallel channel access (MU-PCA). For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is provided that is one of the plurality of WTRUs operable to simultaneously communicate via a plurality of channels managed ...