ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,935, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Techniques of improving EDCA mechanism in spatial reuse" was invented by Kaiying Lv (Guangdong, China), Bo Sun (Guangdong, China) and Yonggang Fang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitting wireless device provides channel spatial reuse information to a receiving wireless device for the receiving wireless device to make a determination of how to contend the medium for spatial reuse transmission, when to transmit and what transmissions parameters to use for the transmission in the spatial reuse. A timer is designated to track the remaining t...