ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,647, issued on April 7, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Efficient pre-channel reservation mechanism for TWT and restricted TWT in OBSS dense networks" was invented by Ying-You Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Wei Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques pertaining to an efficient pre-channel reservation mechanism for target wake time (TWT) and restricted TWT (rTWT) in overlapping basic service set (OBSS) dense networks are described. A first station (STA) transmits a frame to reserve a reservation period. The first STA then communicates with a second STA during the reservation peri...