ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,615, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Procedures for preemption in next generation WI-FI networks" was invented by Peshal Nayak (Plano, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas), Rubayet Shafin (Allen, Texas), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, Texas), Yue Qi (Plano, Texas) and Elliot Jen (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for facilitating channel access for transmission opportunity (TXOP) preemption procedures in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A station (STA) comprises a processor and a transceiver operably coupled to the processor. The proc...