ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,091, issued on May 12, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Spatial-reuse based TXOP sharing for random access transmissions" was invented by Charlie Pettersson (Solna, Sweden), Jonas Sedin (Brentford, Great Britain) and Sebastian Max (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless station (11) determines a path loss of a wireless signal path between the wireless station (11) and a first access point (10). The first access point (10) cooperates with a second access point (10) by sharing a transmit opportunity based on coordinated spatial reuse of at least one resource of the shared transmit ...