ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,591, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable multi-radio bridge" was invented by Debashis Dash (Newark, Calif.), Hossein Dehghan-Fard (Diablo, Calif.), Simon Duxbury (Piedmont, Calif.) and Wanjui Ho (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems describe herein relate to a reconfigurable multi-radio bridge that may connect a local area network (LAN) with an access point (AP) or other WAP to the backhaul and may dynamically change and/or select transmission methods. An example implementation of a reconfigurable multi-radio bridge performs a method including discovering...