ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,762, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PERASO TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Toronto).

"Long range contention based access protocol network" was invented by Albert Klaas Theodoor Rietema (Guelph, Canada), Ali Reza Khodaian Zavareh (Waterloo, Canada) and Bradley Robert Lynch (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a communication system including an access point and a plurality of stations, includes: selecting, at the access point, a quasi-omni-directional beam for use in transmitting and receiving control frames to and from the stations; selecting, at each station, one of a plurality of directional beams for use in transmitting and re...