ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,171, issued on July 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system and method of concurrent multiple band (CMB) network access" was invented by Ofer Hareuveni (Haifa, Israel), Daniel Cohn (Raanana, Israel), David Birnbaum (Modiin, Israel), Ehud Reshef (Qiryat Tivon, Israel), Dor Chay (Haifa, Israel) and Sivan Koffler (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to, while communicating via a first radio of the wireless communication device over a first network connection in a first WLAN over a first wireless communication frequency band, ident...