US Patent Issued to Intel on April 22 for "Multi-link device (MLD) for reporting per-port frame replication and elimination for reliability (FRER) capabilities using a per-port FRER-capabilities object" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,551, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-link device (MLD) for reporting per-port frame replication and elimination for reliability (FRER) capabilities using a per-port FRER-capabilities object" was invented by Dave A. Cavalcanti (Portland, Ore.) and Juan Fang (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-link device (MLD) configured for reporting per-port frame replication and elimination for reliability (FRER) capabilities uses a per-Port FRER-capabilities object generated by upper MLD MAC layer to indicate per-Port FRER capabilities of lower layers including lower MAC and PHY layer...