ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,842, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication methods for latency sensitive streams and multilink apparatus" was invented by Pascal Viger (Janze, France) and Patrice Nezou (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Known stream classification service (SCS) has been improved for multi-link support. The low latency streams are identified with a SCSID. Improved SCS mechanisms may be used to allow a station to report link preference associated with low latency streams. Adapted SCS may also be used for negotiating a set of link for transmission of the low latency streams. An amended trigger frame may be us...