ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,261, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dynamic selection of triggered transmission opportunity sharing modes" was invented by Abdel Karim Ajami (Lakeside, Calif.), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Yanjun Sun (San Diego), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego) and Gaurang Naik (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device and a second wireless device (e.g., access points, stations) may support transmission opportunity (TXOP) sharing procedures. The second wireless...