ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,644, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Multiple station access in a reserved target-wait-time service period" was invented by Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Liangxiao Xin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New reverse direction (RD) protocols for EHT devices during reserved target wait time (R-TWT) service periods (SPs). In this protocol the R-TWT scheduling AP does not have to trigger the RD initiator when it performs as the RD responder, and can trigger TB PPDU(s). In a...