ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,492, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"WLAN communication methods and devices" was invented by Jie Zhang (Beijing), Li Wang (Beijing), Wan Li Ma (Beijing) and Mattias Lampe (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a WLAN communication method. An example includes: receiving a polling request message at a client from an access point; checking whether the client is a polled client; if the client is the polled client, then sending a polling response message from the client to the access point; entering a function execution time window, and, when a moment for executin...