ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,223, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for multilink devices" was invented by Jarkko L. Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Gaurav Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.), Jinjing Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Tianyu Wu (Cupertino, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Guoqing Li (Campbell, Calif.) and Charles F. Dominguez (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include utilizing a multilink media access control (MAC) address structure to support multilink devices (MLDs) that can operate concurrently in more than one link such as extremely high ...