US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 25 for "Method and apparatus for emergency preparedness communication services" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,418, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for emergency preparedness communication services" was invented by Peshal Nayak (Plano, Texas), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas) and Rubayet Shafin (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes detecting, at an access point (AP), that a station (STA) is in an emergency preparedness communication services (EPCS) mode. The method also includes, responsive to detecting that the STA is in the EPCS mode, transmitting a beacon frame to another AP, wherein the beacon frame inc...