ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,397, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangzhou, China).
"Controlling transmissions from multiple user devices via a request-clear technique" was invented by Kaiying Lv (Guangdong, China), Bo Sun (Guangdong, China), Kaibo Tian (Guangdong, China), Weimin Xing (Guangdong, China) and Yonggang Fang (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of setup a protection mechanism for scheduled transmissions to multiple stations is introduced. Through transmitting a control frame addressing to multiple stations for immediate simultaneous responses, the transmitter would know the stations that are ready for receiving the...