ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,627, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Triggered transmission opportunity and multiple user ack procedures in WLAN systems" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (Cedar Grove, N.J.), Fengjun Xi (San Diego), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Robert L. Olesen (Huntington, N.Y.), Frank La Sita (Setauket, N.Y.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a STA of a WLAN may comprise receiving a trigger frame, from an AP. The trigger frame may be a trigger for uplink MU data transmission and the trigger frame may indicate a traffic priority. In response...