ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,436, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Communication apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Nobuhiro Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus transmits a radio frame complying with an IEEE802.11 standard series to another communication apparatus, or receives the radio frame from the other communication apparatus. Here, a MAC (Media Access Control) frame of the radio frame includes information concerning scheduling of transmission opportunities in which contention is restricted based on a time."
The patent was filed on Aug. 12, 2022...