ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,226, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cross link management frame signaling" was invented by Po-Kai Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel F. Bravo (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Laurent Cariou (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for communicating elements between multi-link devices are disclosed. Apparatuses of a multi-link device (MLD) are disclosed, where the apparatuses comprise processing circuitry configured to encode a management frame, the management frame comprising a link information field, the link information field indicating a first lin...