ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,470, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Signaling multi-link device capabilities" was invented by Binita Gupta (San Diego) and Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signaling Multi-Link Device (MLD) capabilities is provided. Signaling MLD capabilities can comprise maintaining, by a non-Access Point (AP) Multi-Link Device (MLD), an association with an AP MLD, the association comprising one or more setup links between the non-AP MLD and the AP MLD, each setup link established between an affiliated non-AP station (STA) of the non-AP MLD and an affiliated AP of the AP MLD...