US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Dec. 2 for "Wireless network protocol allowing the same scrambling seed to be utilized by multiple STAs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,086, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Wireless network protocol allowing the same scrambling seed to be utilized by multiple STAs" was invented by Liangxiao Xin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using this described protocol an AP can control multiple STAs to allow them to utilize the same scrambling seed to scramble the data in identical data units being sent on the wireless network. The AP sends a scrambling seed indication within a frame communicated to other STAs on the network....