ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,586, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Methods and arrangements for resource assessment" was invented by Yonathan Segev (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Carlos Cordeiro (Portland, Ore.), David Birnbaum (Modiin, Israel), Qinghua Li (San Ramon, Calif.), Xiaogang Chen (Portland, Ore.) and Hassan Yaghoobi (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logic to generate, by an access point (AP) station (STA), a medium access control (MAC) resource assessment trigger frame to transmit during a first transmission opportunity (TxOP), the MAC resource assessment trigger frame to allocate a portion of the first Tx...