ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,216, issued on June 24, was assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Data transmission method and access point" was invented by Junju Song (Shanghai) and Ziyu Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for data transmission and an access point (AP) for performing this method. The method includes receiving, by a hardware receiving port and a software receiving port, a first set of data packets and a second set of data packets, respectively; performing, by a hardware pre-processing module and a software pre-processing module, QoS related pre-processing on the first set of data pack...