US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Oct. 27 for "TXOP sharing protocol, method, device, and system for coordinated spatial reuse" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,521, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"TXOP sharing protocol, method, device, and system for coordinated spatial reuse" was invented by Sayak Roy (Kolkata, India), Ankit Sethi (Pune, India), Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rong Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Dong Wei (Austin, Texas) and Sudhir Srinivasa (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an IEEE 802.11 wireless system, a sharing AP device (1A) shares a transmission opportunity with a shared AP device (2A) by transmitting a coordinated spatial reuse opportunity announcement control frame packet having defined signal fields which are used by th...