US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on March 25 for "Communication apparatus and communication method for multi-link secured retransmissions" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,938, issued on March 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication apparatus and communication method for multi-link secured retransmissions" 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: "A transmitting multi-link device (MLD) includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, constructs an Additional Authentication Data (AAD) and a Nonce, and encapsulates a plaintext medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU), the AAD, and the Nonce to generate an encapsulated M...