ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,921, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Physical layer latency reduction" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sameer Vermani (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for physical layer (PHY) latency reduction. Some aspects more specifically relate to PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) designs that support inserting low-latency traffic into a transmission opportunity (TXOP) occupied by non-low-latency traffic. In some implementations, during a TXOP, an access point (AP) may output an agg...