ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,854, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Methods and apparatuses for optimized multi-AP coordination" was invented by Pascal Viger (Janze, France), Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France) and Patrice Nezou (Liffre, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a 802.11 be multi-AP collaboration, collaborated devices obtaining shared resources announced by a collaborator AP re-announce the shared resource for the stations out of the transmission range of the collaborator AP. Given the short time available, the re-announcing frame binary repeats most of the initial announcement by the collaborator AP, in particular substantiall...