ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,034, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Channel access control in restricted target wake time operation" was invented by Jeongki Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Leonardo Alisasis Lanante (Reston, Va.) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) transmits to a first station (STA) a first frame indicating a trigger-enabled (TE) restricted target wake time (r-TWT) service period (SP) of a TE r-TWT setup between the AP and the first STA. The AP receives from a second STA a Request to Send (RTS) frame during the r-TWT SP. The second STA may not be a member of the TE r-TWT. ...