US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on April 21 for "RTS/CTS coordination for TXOP sharing" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,396, issued on April 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"RTS/CTS coordination for TXOP sharing" was invented by Dennis Sundman (Sollentuna, Sweden), Miguel Lopez (Solna, Sweden) and Charlie Pettersson (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point of a wireless communication system configures a carrier for communication with one or more wireless devices associated with the access point. Further, the access point contends at least with one or more other access points for access to the carrier. Further, the access point cooperates with the one or more further access points by sharing...