ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,440, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Fairness for restricted TWT operation" was invented by Rubayet Shafin (Allen, Texas) and Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for balancing a tradeoff between channel utilization and fairness during restricted target wake time (TWT) operation in a wireless network. The apparatuses include a wireless station (STA) device comprising a transceiver and a processor operably coupled to the transceiver. The transceiver is configured to transmit latency-sensit...