ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,166, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"WLAN multi-link TDLS key derivation" was invented by Stephen McCann (Hampshire, Great Britain), Michael Montemurro (Toronto) and Sheng Sun (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for WLAN multi-link TDLS key derivation. An aspect of the disclosure provides a method for WLAN multi-link communication. Such a method includes sending, by a first station to a second station, a discovery request comprising a link identifier indicating a non-access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), wherein the first station and the second s...