ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,086, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Flexible multi-link operation architecture" was invented by Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.), Guido Robert Frederiks (Watsonville, Calif.), Nicholas Kucharewski (San Jose, Calif.), Patrick Poon-Cheuk Chan (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivas Katar (Fremont, Calif.), Harinder Singh (Saratoga, Calif.) and John Thomas Harrsen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an architecture and method for multi-link operation (MLO) at an access point (AP). The method generally includes obtaining a packet from at least one...