ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,597, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Block acknowledgement agreement for latency sensitive traffic stream" was invented by Liangxiao Xin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Li-Hsiang Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.) and Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced method of handling block Acks, such as for latency sensitive traffic streams, for which a separate block Ack mechanism is established, which is separate from other traffic in the same TID. With this separate block Ack mechanism the recipient STA can have a...