ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,473, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Cross-BSS (basic service set) non-triggered based coordinated spatial reuse" was invented by Ray-Kuo Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tsungjung Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Pochun Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is provided, which includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver connects the device to one or more first stations and an access point, and the access point is connected to one or more second stations. The processor is coupled to the transceiver and is configured to perform operations including: building a first cross-BSS (bas...