US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on March 4 for "Supporting a large number of devices in wireless communications" (California, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,072, issued on March 4, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Supporting a large number of devices in wireless communications" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.), Lei Wang (San Diego), Sudheer A. Grandhi (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving a backoff value at a wireless station is presented. A traffic indication map is received at the station, wherein a backoff number is implicitly assigned to the station based on a position of the station within the traffic indication map. The backoff value is determined by multi...