ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,464, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-link operation (MLO) for easy mesh" was invented by Xiaolong Huang (Santee, Calif.), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), Srinivas Katar (Fremont, Calif.), Mughilan Ramajayam (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.) and Manish Shukla (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first Multi-AP device configured as a Multi-AP Agent transmits, to a second Multi-AP device configured as a Multi-AP Controller over a first communication link, a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) Configuration Request Message indicating multi-link operation (MLO) capa...