ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,970, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Security for multi-link operation" was invented by Po-Kai Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France), Carlos Cordeiro (Camas, Wash.), Daniel Bravo (Portland, Ore.), Robert Stacey (Portland, Ore.), Arik Klein (Givaat Shmuel, Israel), Avner Epstein (Givatayim, Israel) and Daniel Leiderman (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to security for multi-link operation. A device may determine a multi-link communication with a first multi-link device comprising two or more links ...