US Patent Issued to Ofinno on Aug. 25 for "Transmission opportunity (TXOP) return" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,598, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Transmission opportunity (TXOP) return" was invented by Serhat Erkucuk (Reston, Va.), Leonardo Alisasis Lanante (Reston, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Jeongki Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Tuncer Baykas (Reston, Va.) and Jiayi Zhang (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first access point (AP) receives, from a second AP during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) obtained by the second AP, first frames comprising: a first indication of a portion, of the TXOP, allocated to the first AP, and a second indication of whether the first AP is to return the allocated...