US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 29 for "Priority access for Wi-Fi 7 wireless local area networks (WLANs)" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,159, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Priority access for Wi-Fi 7 wireless local area networks (WLANs)" was invented by Vijayakumar V (Ulsoor, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Groups of Wi-Fi 7 stations are created including identifying Wi-Fi 7 stations accessing the channel for multimedia traffic and creating a group of stations accessing the channel for multimedia traffic. Responsive to reaching the threshold usage for channel usage, a high usage priority mode is activated to prioritize multimedia traffic. In high usage priority mode, notifying the group of Wi-Fi 7 stations of EDCA channel ...