US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Link availability and status indication for multi-link operation in WLAN" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,948, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Link availability and status indication for multi-link operation in WLAN" was invented by Jinjing Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.), Tianyu Wu (Fremont, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jarkko L. Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods for conducting multilink communications between wireless devices over a wireless local area network (WLAN). A wireless device determines link availability for multiple wireless links of the wireless device. The wireless device transmits link a...