ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,363, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Stream classification service (SCS) with restricted target wait time (R-TWT) setup" was invented by Liangxiao Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, 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: "An IEEE 802.11 protocol in which the necessity and issues surrounding separately setting up SCS and reserving target wait time (R-TWT) are eliminated. In the present disclosure new data structures and processes are performed in which a station (STA) can request ...