ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,340, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Harmonized link monitoring and link recovery" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for harmonized link monitoring and link recovery."

The patent was filed on June 7, 2021, under Application No. 17/441,252.

*For further...