ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,484, issued on May 27, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Short packet optimization in WLAN systems" was invented by Fengjun Xi (San Diego), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Nirav B. Shah (San Diego), Robert L. Olesen (Huntington, N.Y.), Yuan Sheng Jin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pengfei Xia (San Diego), Frank La Sita (Setauket, N.Y.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms may be used for aggregating acknowledgement (ACK), block ACK (BA) and/or short packets transmissions for multi-user (MU) wireless communication systems. Aggregation mechan...