ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,385, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Phase lock loop phase ambiguity mitigation for multi-link operation extrapolated sounding" was invented by Matthew Aaron Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas), Brian Donald Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and John Matthew Swartz (Lithia, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to simultaneous channel sounding on multiple MLO channels followed by determining phase and amplitude corrections based on channel impulse responses obtained on each MLO channel. ...