ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,914, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Xiandong Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method is performed by an access point (AP) supporting multi-link (ML) communication, and includes: determining a first message frame, wherein the first message frame includes a reduced neighbor report (RNR) element in response to a condition related to ML communication being satisfied; and sending the first message frame on a first link among multiple links."

The patent was filed on June 25, 2021, under Ap...