ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,299, issued on March 25, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Multi-link device and method of switching operation mode of multi-link device" was invented by Chung-Yao Chang (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Chuan-Hu Lin (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of switching an operation mode of a first multi-link device includes the first multi-link device establishing a plurality of links to a second multi-link device, and the first multi-link device determining according to a channel condition whether to receive a plurality of streams via the plurality of links or via one of the plurality of links." ...