US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 26 for "MAC/PHY interface of wireless stations compliant to direct link and downlink transmissions in trigger-based multi-user transmissions" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,152, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"MAC/PHY interface of wireless stations compliant to direct link and downlink transmissions in trigger-based multi-user transmissions" was invented by Pascal Viger (Janze, France), Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France), Patrice Nezou (Liffre, France) and Julien Sevin (Saint Aubin du Cormier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to enhanced multi-user (MU) uplink (UL) protocols in wireless networks that allow non-UL transmissions to be performed simultaneously with triggered MU UL transmissions. A station may send a trigger frame...