ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,088, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Soft access point and peer to peer operation" was invented by Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Gaurang Naik (San Diego), Abdel Karim Ajami (Lakeside, Calif.), George Cherian (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), Yanjun Sun (San Diego) and Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Described techniques relate to a soft access point (AP) in a multi-link operation including a first radio frequency link for control communications and a second radio frequency link for data co...