US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on June 24 for "Sharing an EDCA TXOP with RTA traffic" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,392, issued on June 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Sharing an EDCA TXOP with RTA traffic" was invented by Liangxiao Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (San Francisco), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication circuit and protocol for a wireless local area network (WLAN) using single EDCA and/or Multiple-User (MU) EDCA in which frames for Real Time Applications (RTA) can utilize shared Transmit Opportunities (TXOPs) to reduce transmission latencies. The protocol is configured in a number of ways to ...