ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,477, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Coordinating joint transmissions among multiple access points" was invented by Qichen Jia (Guangdong, China), Bo Sun (Guangdong, China), Kaiying Lv (Guangdong, China), Zhiqiang Han (Guangdong, China) and Nan Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for coordinating joint transmissions among multiple access points are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a communication device, a first frame from a master access point or a first intermediate communication device. The first f...