US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on July 21 for "Methods for concurrent link setup and downlink data retrieval for high efficiency WLAN" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,077, issued on July 21, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for concurrent link setup and downlink data retrieval for high efficiency WLAN" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for concurrent link setup and downlink data retrieval, e.g., for high efficiency WLAN. An access point (AP) may send a trigger element that allocates a resource for pre-association transmissions with the AP. The trigger element may allocate the resource for ...