ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,426, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Trigger-based random access in a multiple BSSID network" was invented by Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego) and George Cherian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for allocating wireless resources to a multiple basic service set identifier (BSSID) set including a number of BSSIDs each associated with a corresponding one of a number of access points (APs). An AP may allocate random access resources for use by stations belonging to the multiple BSSID set using a number of a...