ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,428, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Restricted TWT operation for peer-to-peer communication" was invented by Rubayet Shafin (Allen, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas), Shiyang Leng (Allen, Texas), Ahmed Atef Ibrahim Ibrahim (Plano, Texas) and Junsu Choi (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for facilitating restricted target wake time (TWT) operation on peer-to-peer (P2P) links in a wireless local area network. A wireless station (STA) apparatus comprises a transceiver and a processor operably coupled to the transceiver. The transce...