ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,276, issued on March 31, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and method for indicating service period information for restricted target wake time" was invented by Muhammad Kumail Haider (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chunyu Hu (Saratoga, Calif.), Binita Gupta (San Diego) and Chittabrata Ghosh (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may generate a frame relating to a target wake time (TWT) schedule. In response to determining that the device cannot accept a request for a new membership of the TWT schedule, the device may set a subfield of the frame to a first value, indicating, to a r...