ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,046, issued on July 1, was assigned to Avalon Technology Solutions LLC (Frisco, Texas).

"Overlapping basic service set status indication for an access point cooperative transmission" was invented by Heejung Yu (Daejeon, South Korea), Yujin Noh (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Jong-ee Oh (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described, which includes receiving, by a wireless station from a first access point, an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) status report request, which requests information from the station regarding a set of neighboring access points; transmitting, by the wireless station to the first access ...