ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,324, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and apparatus for power savings in a wireless local area network" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (Cedar Grove, N.J.), Monisha Ghosh (Chicago), Lei Wang (San Diego), Nirav B. Shah (San Diego), Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.) and Sudheer A. Grandhi (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for power savings in a wireless local area network (WLAN) are disclosed. A station (STA) may receive parameters that associate the STA to a specific group of STAs and perform a channel access during a period that is allowed...