US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 8 for "Methods for WiFi sectorization mac enhancement" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,736, issued on April 8, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for WiFi sectorization mac enhancement" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (Cedar Grove, N.J.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus may be used for WiFi sectorization medium access control enhancement (WiSE MAC). An IEEE 802.11 STA may receive an omni-directional indication of a first sectorized transmission opportunity (TXOP) associated with a second STA. The omni-directional indication may include an identifier (ID) of a first sector associated with the first sectorized TXOP. The STA ma...