ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,773, issued on April 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for aggregating communications links" was invented by Yunsong Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this disclosure provide an efficient mechanism for re-ordering media access control (MAC) service data units (MSDU) segments by including link-specific MAC addresses and link-independent sequence control fields in MAC headers appended to MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) payloads within which the MSDU segments are encapsulated prior to transmitting the MPDU payloads over multiple aggregated 802.11 links. Each ...