ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,461, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Restricted target wake time service period termination" was invented by Liangxiao Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication protocol using CSMA/CA, EDCA and R-TWT to prioritize RTA traffic transmissions. During an R-TWT SP, the RTA traffic is prioritized for transmission and mechanisms are provided for assuring proper indications and termination of the R-TWT SP. During this process, m...