US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 28 for "Multi-user random access in a wireless network" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,640, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Multi-user random access in a wireless network" was invented by Patrice Nezou (Liffre, France), Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France), Pascal Viger (Janze, France) and Julien Sevin (Saint Aubin du Cormier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides according to one of its aspects a method of communication in a wireless network comprising an access point and a plurality of stations, the method comprising, at one of the stations: receiving a trigger frame from the access point, the trigger frame reserving a transmission opportunity on at least one communi...