US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW, UNIVERSITEIT GENT on June 17 for "Device and method for application-requirement aware medium access control" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,773, issued on June 17, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium).

"Device and method for application-requirement aware medium access control" was invented by Spilios Giannoulis (Leuven, Belgium), Irfan Jabandzic (Leuven, Belgium) and Ingrid Moerman (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for medium access control in a node of a wireless communication network with time-shared medium includes a slot allocation module configured to allocate a timeslot for transmission from the node to a destination node over the time-shared medium; a validation module configured to validate a dat...