ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,291, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Non-R-TWT member STA access grant for burst traffic transmission" was invented by Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Liangxiao Xin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-AP STA, which is a scheduled STA having membership in an R-TWT scheduled STA, having an enqueued urgent burst of RTA traffic for the AP during an ongoing R-TWT SP of which it does not have R-TWT membership, is enabled to initiate R-TWT negotiation with the scheduling A...