ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,636, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-link communication probe request method and apparatus" was invented by Yuchen Guo (Shenzhen, China), Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China) and Yunbo Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a multi-link communication probe request method and apparatus. The method includes: a non-access point multi-link device (non-AP MLD) generates a probe request frame, and sends the probe request frame to an access point multi-link device (AP MLD), and the AP MLD receives the probe request frame, and generates a probe response fra...