US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW, UNIVERSITEIT GENT on Sept. 30 for "Device and method for medium access control" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,763, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium).

"Device and method for medium access control" was invented by Irfan Jabandzic (Leuven, Belgium), Spilios Giannoulis (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 shared medium, including: a registration module, configured to maintain in a scheduling table the use of slots, including timeslots and/or frequency channels; an information exchange module, configured to collect slot usage information indicativ...