US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on July 29 for "Backoff counter handling for TXOP sharing" (Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,154, issued on July 29, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Backoff counter handling for TXOP sharing" was invented by Dennis Sundman (Sollentuna, Sweden), Charlie Pettersson (Solna, Sweden), Miguel Lopez (Solna, Sweden), Guido Roland Hiertz (Aachen, Germany) and Leif Wilhelmsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point of a wireless communication system configures a carrier for communication with one or more wireless devices associated with the access point. Based on a backoff counter maintained by the access point, the access point contends for access to the carrier to transmit d...