ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,954, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Collision avoidance in multi link device (MLD) make before break roaming (MBBR)" was invented by Pooya Monajemi (Irvine, Calif.) and Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collision avoidance in Multi Link Device (MLD) Make Before Break Roaming (MBBR) may be provided. It may be determined that a client device may comprise an MBBR client device. Next, a Request To Send (RTS) may be sent to the client device. In response to sending the RTS to the client device, a Clear To Send (CTS) may be received from the client device. In...