ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,766, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Recovery mechanisms for wireless extension links" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Alecsander Petru Eitan (Haifa, Israel) and Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides wireless communication methods, components, devices and systems for link recovery in wireless communication networks. Some aspects more specifically relate to the recovery of lost wireless communication links for which initial link establishment has been aided by communications over anchor links of different frequency bands than thos...