ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,406, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Shared transmission opportunity operation in multi-access point coordination" was invented by Sharan Naribole (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivas Kandala (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Wook Bong Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Ashok Ranganath (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of setting conditions for an access point (AP) to be included in an AP candidate set of a coordinating AP for a transmission opportunity (TXOP), including setting a first primary channel of the AP as part of the AP candidate set of the coordinating AP within a ba...