ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,599, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PERASO TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Toronto).

"Contention-based access with spatial re-use" was invented by Albert Klaas Theodoor Rietema (Guelph, Canada) and Bradley Robert Lynch (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a communications device includes: maintaining an association between the communications device and a basic service set identifier; detecting a message at a wireless interface of the communications device; determining whether the message is associated with the basic service set identifier; and when the message is not associated with the basic service set identifier, determining...