US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 9 for "Request trigger frame and TXOP sharing launched by non-AP STA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,156, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Request trigger frame and TXOP sharing launched by non-AP STA" was invented by Liangxiao Xin (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohamed Abouelseoud (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication apparatus, system or method for operation on a network utilizing CSMA/CA, in which non-AP stations can share their TXOP. After obtaining a TXOP, a non-AP station informs the AP to share the TXOP within its BSS. The AP collects buffer status and the QoS requirements of the buffer from the stations and arranges transmissions during the shared TXOP to satisfy the QoS...