ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,480, issued on July 8, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Communication apparatus and communication method for multi-link setup and link maintenance" was invented by Rojan Chitrakar (Singapore), Lei Huang (Singapore) and Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication devices and methods for multi-link setup and link maintenance are provided. One exemplary embodiment provides a first station (STA) included in a first plurality of STAs affiliated with a first Multi-link Device (MLD), the first STA comprising: circuitry, which in operation, generates a reque...