ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,448, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for multi-user concurrent random access for wireless local area networks (WLANS)" was invented by Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Robert L Olesen (Huntington, N.Y.), Fengjun Xi (San Diego), Rui Yang (Greenlawn, N.Y.) and Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are described. A station includes a transceiver and a processor, which receive a trigger frame for an uplink (UL) transmission. The ...