ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,072, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Multi-RU multi-AP transmissions in WLAN systems" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Li Hsiang Sun (San Diego) and Rui Yang (Greenlawn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for operating in multi-access point (AP) wireless networks are described herein. A method performed by an AP may include transmitting, using a set of resources, a multi-AP ready-to-send (RTS) frame to at least one other AP and a plurality of stations (STAs). The method may include transmitting another f...