ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,296, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Spatial reuse for WLAN networks" was invented by George Cherian (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego) and Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improved spatial reuse for wireless local area network (WLAN) networks are described. An access point (AP) may win a contention to a wireless medium and obtain a transmission opportunity (TXOP). The AP may perform a procedure to identify a group of un-managed APs for participation in spatial reuse opportunities for synchronous transmission over the TXOP. The AP may perform the proce...