ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,920, issued on April 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Collision detection and collision resolution for prioritized full duplex communication" was invented by Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.) and Liangxiao Xin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preamble-based collision detection mechanism for use in wireless local area networks (WLANS), having one or more full-duplex (FD) stations. In addition, a new collision resolution estimation and scheduling mechanism is described for prioritized commun...