ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,741, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Sub-channel request method, sub-channel indication method and device" was invented by Xiandong Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for requesting a subchannel is applied to a station, and includes sending a target wake time (TWT) request frame to an access point in an operating channel. The number of bytes in a first TWT channel field in the TWT request frame is greater than 1, and the first TWT channel field indicates the subchannel selected by the station in a candidate channel. A method for indicating a subchannel is appli...