ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,771, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"OFDMA trigger based peer to peer operations with dual-stage triggering" was invented by Jonathan Segev (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qinghua Li (San Ramon, Calif.), Xiaogang Chen (Portland, Ore.), Ofer Hareuveni (Haifa, Israel) and David Birnbaum (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A station (STA) may operate as a first peer-to-peer (P2P) client (P2P1) for P2P operations with dual-stage triggering. The STA may decode a primary frame trigger frame (TF) from an access point (AP) operating as a coordinator. The primary TF may allocate resources in an initial p...