ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,965, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Quiet interval termination" was invented by Jeongki Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Kiseon Ryu (McLean, Va.) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) transmits a first frame comprising: a Target Wake Time (TWT) element indicating a restricted Target Wake Time (r-TWT) Service Period (SP) of an r-TWT setup for one or more first stations (STAs); and a quiet element indicating a quiet interval for one or more second STAs, the quiet interval overlapping with a portion of the r-TWT SP. Based on determining termination of the r-TWT SP du...