ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,616, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-link communication method and apparatus" was invented by Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China), Yifan Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Dandan Liang (Shenzhen, China), Guogang Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Xun Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a multi-link communication method and a related apparatus. In a scenario in which simultaneous transmission and reception over a plurality of links is not supported, a multi-link device first sends a first physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) over a first link,...