ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,809, issued on March 18, was assigned to AVIAT NETWORKS INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Resilient data communications with physical layer link aggregation, extended failure detection and load balancing" was invented by Sergio Licardie (Cupertino, Calif.) and Chaoming Zeng (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rapid channel failure detection and recovery in wireless communication networks is needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet channel standards. Thus, resilient wireless packet communications is provided using a physical layer link aggregation protocol with a hardware-assisted rapid channel failure de...